Meaning not yet researched.
Nathanael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 442 in 2025. Its best rank was #406 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #406 in 1998; #632 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nathanael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#632 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #406.
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Nathanael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 442 boys in 2025. Peak: #406 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 609 (2000).
In 2025, 442 US boys were named Nathanael, making it the 632nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 42 places from #674 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 407 boys named Nathanael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #406, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 609, in 2000. For comparison, it was #580 in 2015 and #2,398 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nathanael in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 22,244 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,712 babies named Nathanael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,723 US boys were named Nathanael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 442. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,864 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nathanael ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #290 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), Natanael (2,557 babies since 1880), Nael (1,519 babies since 1880) and Nathanial (10,578 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nathanaelle and Nathinal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nathanaelle (23), Nathinal (5).
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 Nathanael 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 5 | #290 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #381 | — |
| Georgia | 26 | #437 | #770 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #456 | #278 |
| Florida | 38 | #485 | #489 |
| Virginia | 16 | #488 | #489 |
| California | 64 | #498 | #548 |
| Maryland | 10 | #499 | #386 |
| Oregon | 7 | #513 | — |
| New Jersey | 14 | #533 | #353 |
| Texas | 60 | #544 | #582 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #548 | #293 |
| Washington | 12 | #594 | #556 |
| Utah | 7 | #601 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #625 | #878 |
| Missouri | 9 | #631 | #597 |
| New York | 24 | #633 | #564 |
| Arizona | 10 | #662 | #583 |
| Colorado | 8 | #664 | #667 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #834 | #517 |
| Alabama | 5 | #843 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #916 | #763 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #919 | #501 |
| Indiana | 6 | #921 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,068 | #527 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,072 | #621 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,104 | #631 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 442 | #632 |
| 2024 | — | — | 407 | #674 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,893 | 369 | #719 |
| 2022 | — | — | 325 | #779 |
| 2021 | — | — | 317 | #781 |
| 2020 | — | — | 345 | #721 |
| 2019 | — | — | 348 | #710 |
| 2018 | — | — | 337 | #717 |
| 2017 | — | — | 402 | #644 |
| 2016 | — | — | 431 | #621 |
| 2015 | — | — | 480 | #580 |
| 2014 | — | — | 477 | #583 |
| 2013 | — | — | 471 | #560 |
| 2012 | — | — | 438 | #584 |
| 2011 | — | — | 433 | #579 |
| 2010 | — | — | 475 | #538 |
| 2009 | — | — | 586 | #467 |
| 2008 | — | — | 531 | #513 |
| 2007 | — | — | 598 | #462 |
| 2006 | — | — | 594 | #455 |
| 2005 | — | — | 577 | #448 |
| 2004 | — | — | 595 | #436 |
| 2003 | — | — | 539 | #467 |
| 2002 | — | — | 539 | #454 |
| 2001 | — | — | 544 | #446 |
| 2000 | — | — | 609 | #408 |
| 1999 | — | — | 564 | #417 |
| 1998 | — | — | 600 | #406 |
| 1997 | — | — | 523 | #433 |
| 1996 | — | — | 465 | #471 |
| 1995 | — | — | 476 | #467 |
| 1994 | — | — | 404 | #500 |
| 1993 | — | — | 428 | #490 |
| 1992 | — | — | 407 | #498 |
| 1991 | — | — | 383 | #507 |
| 1990 | — | — | 356 | #523 |
| 1989 | — | — | 359 | #504 |
| 1988 | — | — | 356 | #487 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,481 | 307 | #513 |
| 1986 | — | — | 394 | #433 |
| 1985 | — | — | 352 | #458 |
| 1984 | — | — | 350 | #449 |
| 1983 | — | — | 356 | #440 |
| 1982 | — | — | 369 | #438 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,561 | 323 | #462 |
| 1980 | — | — | 348 | #447 |
| 1979 | — | — | 275 | #504 |
| 1978 | — | — | 262 | #500 |
| 1977 | — | — | 218 | #568 |
| 1976 | — | — | 199 | #575 |
| 1975 | — | — | 163 | #634 |
| 1974 | — | — | 103 | #791 |
| 1973 | — | — | 100 | #794 |
| 1972 | — | — | 69 | #983 |
| 1971 | — | — | 61 | #1,046 |
| 1970 | — | — | 41 | #1,311 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,595 |
| 1968 | — | — | 32 | #1,381 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,636 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,576 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,574 |
| 1964 | — | — | 26 | #1,562 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,247 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,094 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,834 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,808 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,391 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,968 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,845 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,913 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,408 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,888 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,678 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,617 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,611 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,398 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,419 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,732 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,810 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,865 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,914 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,791 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,148 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,054 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,880 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,425 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,874 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,531 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,420 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,155 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,938 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,055 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,637 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,689 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,765 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,459 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,765 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,707 |
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).