Nataniel
About 670 American babies have been named Nataniel since 1977, most of them around 2008. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 660 Nataniels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Nataniel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 670
- Estimated living today
- 660
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 3,561st
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1977
How old the living Nataniels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 670 babies given the name since 1977, about 660 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Nataniels
- Nataniel Aguirre (1843–1888)Bolivian lawyer, diplomat and politician (1843-1888
People named Nataniel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nataniel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nataniel is most concentrated in New York (5.2×), California (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Nataniel peaked:
Nataniel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Nataniel | 7,516 birth registrations | 64th |
| England and Wales boys | Nataniel | 488 | 765th |
| France boys | Nataniel | 225 | 2,482nd |
| Norway boys | Nataniel | 197 | 300th |
| Ireland boys | Nataniel | 105 | 289th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Nataniel | 23 | 346th |
| Scotland boys | Nataniel | 23 | 426th |
| Belgium boys | Nataniel | 7 | 1,125th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Nataniel: rank by region
In 2025, Nataniel was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Nataniel | 86 | 18 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Nataniel | 71 | 14 |
| Lubelskie | Nataniel | 62 | 14 |
| Lubuskie | Nataniel | 86 | 5 |
| Łódzkie | Nataniel | 90 | 11 |
| Małopolskie | Nataniel | 94 | 19 |
| Mazowieckie | Nataniel | 98 | 28 |
| Opolskie | Nataniel | 108 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Nataniel | 68 | 16 |
| Podlaskie | Nataniel | 73 | 7 |
| Pomorskie | Nataniel | 101 | 13 |
| Śląskie | Nataniel | 88 | 22 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Nataniel | 93 | 3 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Nataniel | 88 | 6 |
| Wielkopolskie | Nataniel | 130 | 10 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Nataniel | 86 | 9 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Nataniel by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nataniel among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Nataniel | 11 | 36 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Nataniel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.