Meaning not yet researched.
Nathanial: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #543 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #543 in 1998; #3,488 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nathanial in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,488 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #543.
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Nathanial: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #543 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 371 (1999).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Nathanial, making it the 3,488th most common boys’ name of the year, up 271 places from #3,759 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 30 boys named Nathanial in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #543, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 371, in 1999. For comparison, it was #2,515 in 2015 and #1,789 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nathanial in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 10,578 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,997 babies named Nathanial.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 350 US boys were named Nathanial; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nathaniel (288,265 babies since 1880) and Nathanael (22,244 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Nathanial in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 33 | #3,488 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,759 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,604 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,969 |
| 2021 | — | — | 32 | #3,556 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,626 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,471 |
| 2018 | — | — | 35 | #3,283 |
| 2017 | — | — | 54 | #2,409 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,506 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,515 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,197 |
| 2013 | — | — | 86 | #1,721 |
| 2012 | — | — | 96 | #1,624 |
| 2011 | — | — | 129 | #1,325 |
| 2010 | — | — | 182 | #1,057 |
| 2009 | — | — | 193 | #1,019 |
| 2008 | — | — | 219 | #928 |
| 2007 | — | — | 264 | #808 |
| 2006 | — | — | 297 | #727 |
| 2005 | — | — | 286 | #716 |
| 2004 | — | — | 295 | #683 |
| 2003 | — | — | 327 | #628 |
| 2002 | — | — | 307 | #635 |
| 2001 | — | — | 292 | #640 |
| 2000 | — | — | 341 | #585 |
| 1999 | — | — | 371 | #546 |
| 1998 | — | — | 369 | #543 |
| 1997 | — | — | 340 | #561 |
| 1996 | — | — | 275 | #628 |
| 1995 | — | — | 311 | #582 |
| 1994 | — | — | 286 | #617 |
| 1993 | — | — | 262 | #641 |
| 1992 | — | — | 281 | #617 |
| 1991 | — | — | 260 | #632 |
| 1990 | — | — | 242 | #650 |
| 1989 | — | — | 216 | #679 |
| 1988 | — | — | 209 | #655 |
| 1987 | — | — | 185 | #673 |
| 1986 | — | — | 210 | #619 |
| 1985 | — | — | 217 | #594 |
| 1984 | — | — | 193 | #612 |
| 1983 | — | — | 180 | #639 |
| 1982 | — | — | 200 | #606 |
| 1981 | — | — | 178 | #639 |
| 1980 | — | — | 190 | #633 |
| 1979 | — | — | 177 | #642 |
| 1978 | — | — | 179 | #624 |
| 1977 | — | — | 124 | #766 |
| 1976 | — | — | 116 | #775 |
| 1975 | — | — | 90 | #877 |
| 1974 | — | — | 75 | #946 |
| 1973 | — | — | 44 | #1,247 |
| 1972 | — | — | 42 | #1,304 |
| 1971 | — | — | 41 | #1,321 |
| 1970 | — | — | 39 | #1,346 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,552 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #2,010 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,101 |
| 1966 | — | — | 19 | #1,794 |
| 1965 | — | — | 22 | #1,703 |
| 1964 | — | — | 20 | #1,837 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,274 |
| 1962 | — | — | 21 | #1,791 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,305 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,281 |
| 1959 | — | — | 14 | #2,268 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,758 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,183 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,455 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,110 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,890 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,679 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,127 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,217 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,789 |
| 1949 | — | — | 13 | #2,192 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,406 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,769 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,096 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,916 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,041 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,051 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,876 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,600 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,667 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,399 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,793 |
| 1937 | — | — | 21 | #1,510 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,145 |
| 1935 | — | — | 17 | #1,742 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,993 |
| 1933 | — | — | 19 | #1,625 |
| 1932 | — | — | 16 | #1,898 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,294 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,738 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,165 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,125 |
| 1927 | — | — | 23 | #1,630 |
| 1926 | — | — | 22 | #1,643 |
| 1925 | — | — | 18 | #1,917 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,435 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,368 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #2,008 |
| 1921 | — | — | 21 | #1,750 |
| 1920 | — | — | 17 | #2,024 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,858 |
| 1918 | — | — | 26 | #1,433 |
| 1917 | — | — | 18 | #1,791 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,745 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,259 |
| 1914 | — | — | 21 | #1,332 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,428 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,194 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,491 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,402 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #929 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,194 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,178 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,020 |
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).