Natanel
Natanel was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,311 among boys’ names; 256 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natanel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Natanel?
#13,311 among boys’ names, 2025
Natanel fell from #5,208 in 2015 to #13,311 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 2.9 per million.
18 babies in 2015, the peak
Natanel peaked in 2015, when 18 boys were given it, #5,208 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,311 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,769 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,558 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,777 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,718 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,559 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,477 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,525 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,653 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,208 | 9.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,934 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,395 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,955 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,862 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,748 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,597 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,681 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,491 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,771 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,485 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,179 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,310 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,888 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,769 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,072 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,338 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,847 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,473 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,170 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,068 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Natanel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natanel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Natanel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natanel, and how old are they?
An estimated 252 Americans named Natanel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 277 people named Natanel (5 women and girls, 272 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,875 babies since 1880, Natanel is the fourth most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 200 babies (2.5%), again the fourth 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 Natanel
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 Natanel and names like it
- Compare Natanel and NatanaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNatanel peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natanel since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Natanel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Natanel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.