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Natalie vs Nathaneal

American parents have registered 379,831 Natalies since 1880, against 908 Nathaneals. Natalie is still ahead, with 2,736 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Natalie against Nathaneal, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Natalie Nathaneal

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Natalie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Natalie had 8,091 and Nathaneal had 39.

Side by side

  Natalie Nathaneal
Total US births 379,831908
Most in one year 10,97039
Babies in 2025 2,736under 5
Estimated living today 353,000880
Median age today 2526
Peak year 20061999
Best rank 17th girls2,300th boys
Rank in 2025 89thunranked
First recorded 18801972
Girls / boys 379,062 / 7690 / 908

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Natalie Nathaneal
England and Wales 10,94634

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Natalie and Nathaneal.