Boy · Hebrew
Nathaniel
Say it: nuh-THAN-yul
Meaning
From Hebrew Netan'el 'God has given'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular with Puritans in colonial New England and steady in the US since.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 274,943 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2002, about 1 in 285 boys
- 2,880 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Nathanael
| Spanish | Natanael |
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Famous bearers
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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