Nathaneil
Nathaneil was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 429 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nathaneil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nathaneil?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,432, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2003, the peak
Nathaneil peaked in 2003, when 13 boys were given it, #5,773 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #13,432 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,455 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,427 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,345 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,411 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,114 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,588 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,950 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,277 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,963 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 13 | #6,033 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,773 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,889 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,776 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,184 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,359 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,788 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,953 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,833 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,395 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,474 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,654 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,138 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,671 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,931 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,037 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,079 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,896 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,043 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,391 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,998 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,872 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,775 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,810 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,291 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,555 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,630 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,401 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,258 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,365 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,442 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,469 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,391 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,334 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,814 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,888 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,335 | 3.5 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,578 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,061 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,272 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,914 | 5.2 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,878 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nathaneil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nathaneil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nathaneil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nathaneil, and how old are they?
An estimated 384 Americans named Nathaneil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Nathaneil (0 women and girls, 281 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 396 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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, Nathaneil is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,046 babies recorded by SSA was a Nathaneil (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 Nathaneil
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 Nathaneil and names like it
- Compare Nathaneil and NathanielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNathaneil peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Nathaneil.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nathaneil alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.