Nathanial
Nathanial is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 543rd, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1999371 births
- Best rank
- #543in 1998
- Since 1880
- 10,545people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,545 boys have been named Nathanial in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 371 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 28%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Nathanial | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 22 | |
| 1910s | 134 | |
| 1920s | 162 | |
| 1930s | 156 | |
| 1940s | 113 | |
| 1950s | 119 | |
| 1960s | 184 | |
| 1970s | 927 | |
| 1980s | 1,978 | |
| 1990s | 2,997 | |
| 2000s | 2,821 | |
| 2010s | 778 | |
| 2020s | 144 |
In 1999, its biggest year
Nathanial was the 546th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Nathanial
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sethpeak 2000
- Nickolaspeak 1998
- Jarettpeak 1998
- Dajuanpeak 2001
- Nicklauspeak 1997
- Jonathenpeak 2000
- Garettpeak 2000
- Brendanpeak 1999
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.