Meaning not yet researched.
Natanael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 164 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,121 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,121 in 2020; #1,230 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Natanael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,230 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,121.
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Natanael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 164 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,121 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 176 (2020).
In 2025, 164 US boys were named Natanael, making it the 1,230th most common boys’ name of the year, up 51 places from #1,281 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 154 boys named Natanael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,121, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 176. For comparison, it was #2,184 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Natanael in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 2,557 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 866 babies named Natanael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,107 US boys were named Natanael; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 176. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,415 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Natanael ranked highest in California in 2025, at #772 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nathaniel (288,265 babies since 1880) and Nathanael (22,244 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Natanael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #772 | #1,602 |
| Washington | 8 | #784 | — |
| Texas | 26 | #948 | #2,054 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #996 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,052 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,103 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,107 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,262 | #1,440 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,318 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 164 | #1,230 |
| 2024 | — | — | 154 | #1,281 |
| 2023 | — | — | 116 | #1,525 |
| 2022 | — | — | 118 | #1,530 |
| 2021 | — | — | 138 | #1,345 |
| 2020 | — | — | 176 | #1,121 |
| 2019 | — | — | 94 | #1,697 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,832 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,440 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,505 |
| 2015 | — | — | 63 | #2,184 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,196 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,485 |
| 2012 | — | — | 53 | #2,406 |
| 2011 | — | — | 46 | #2,657 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,111 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,026 |
| 2008 | — | — | 56 | #2,338 |
| 2007 | — | — | 59 | #2,251 |
| 2006 | — | — | 67 | #2,004 |
| 2005 | — | — | 55 | #2,201 |
| 2004 | — | — | 54 | #2,182 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,953 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,116 |
| 2001 | — | — | 56 | #1,948 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,078 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,957 |
| 1998 | — | — | 53 | #1,866 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,153 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,894 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,085 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,076 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,846 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,971 |
| 1991 | — | — | 31 | #2,333 |
| 1990 | — | — | 30 | #2,354 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,857 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,925 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,798 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,369 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,333 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,118 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,556 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,428 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,821 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,768 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,886 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,523 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,255 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,424 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,459 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).