Natanael
Natanael was given to 164 boys in 2025, #1,230 among boys’ names; 2,557 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,510 Americans named Natanael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natanael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Natanael mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Natanael is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “God has given” (literally).
From Ancient Greek Ναθαναήλ (Nathanaḗl), from Biblical Hebrew נְתַנְאֵל (Netan’el, literally “God has given”).
/ˈnɑtɑnɑel/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Natanael?
#1,230 among boys’ names, 2025
Natanael rose from #2,184 in 2015 to #1,230 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.9 to 96.0 per million.
176 babies in 2020, the peak
Natanael peaked in 2020, when 176 boys were given it, #1,121 among boys’ names. The 164 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 164 | #1,230 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 154 | #1,281 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,525 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 118 | #1,530 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,345 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,121 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 94 | #1,697 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,831 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,439 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,505 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,184 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,194 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 50 | #2,483 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,405 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,656 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,110 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,025 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,337 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,251 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,003 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,197 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,178 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,949 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,112 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 56 | #1,944 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,074 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 50 | #1,954 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,863 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,150 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,890 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,080 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,070 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,965 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,327 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,349 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,920 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,365 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,330 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,115 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,427 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,767 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,521 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,458 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Natanael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natanael has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Natanael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natanael, and how old are they?
2,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,557 Americans ever recorded as Natanael. The median Natanael alive today is 13 years old; half are between 5 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,349 people named Natanael (14 women and girls, 2,335 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,708 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 331 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 869 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,270 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Natanael born?
The states with the most babies named Natanael are California, Texas and Florida, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #772 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 26 | #948 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,107 | 0.9× |
| New York | 9 | #1,262 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #996 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 8 | #784 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,103 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,318 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,052 | 0.1× |
Where Natanael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natanael is most over-represented in California: since 1962 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Natanael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,875 babies since 1880, Natanael is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 164 of their 200 babies (82%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Natanael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Natanael and names like it
- Compare Natanael and NatanielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNatanael peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natanael since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Natanael: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Natanael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Natanael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.