Nataniel
Nataniel was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,055 among boys’ names; 670 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nataniel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nataniel?
#6,055 among boys’ names, 2025
Nataniel fell from #4,247 in 2015 to #6,055 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 8.8 per million.
30 babies in 2008, the peak
Nataniel peaked in 2008, when 30 boys were given it, #3,621 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,055 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,818 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,483 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,964 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,054 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,649 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,032 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,462 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,550 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,474 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,247 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,407 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,108 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,628 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,613 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,960 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,000 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,621 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,608 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,000 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,143 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,936 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,559 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,629 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,932 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,968 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,073 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,571 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,861 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,537 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,394 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,457 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,901 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,137 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,286 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,930 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,436 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,239 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,894 | 3.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,390 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,995 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,623 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,952 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,763 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nataniel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nataniel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nataniel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nataniel, and how old are they?
An estimated 656 Americans named Nataniel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 861 people named Nataniel (10 women and girls, 851 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 567 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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, Nataniel is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 200 babies (7.5%), the third most given that year.
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 Nataniel
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 Nataniel and names like it
- Compare Nataniel and NatanaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNataniel peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nataniel since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Nataniel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nataniel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.