Nathanal
Nathanal was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 209 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nathanal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nathanal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,617, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 2005, the peak
Nathanal peaked in 2005, when 15 boys were given it, #5,483 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #13,617 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,016 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,062 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,503 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,276 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,483 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,833 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,647 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,624 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,301 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9 | #7,219 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,358 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,270 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,862 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,832 | 5.3 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,355 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,131 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,935 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,694 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,255 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,010 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,997 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,154 | 3.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,614 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,625 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,764 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nathanal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nathanal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nathanal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nathanal, and how old are they?
An estimated 189 Americans named Nathanal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 21 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 371 people named Nathanal (4 women and girls, 367 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 323,763 babies since 1880, Nathanal is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,046 babies recorded by SSA was a Nathanal (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nathanal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1920-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Daunte | 1,568 |
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 Nathanal and names like it
- Compare Nathanal and NathanielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNathanal peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nathanal since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Nathanal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nathanal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.