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How popular is the name Nathanael?

Births per year, rank history and how many Nathanaels are alive today.

Nathanael (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 856th in 2025 with 37 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2013, when 75 babies were given the name, the 500th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1055 in 2021 before climbing back to the 856th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.

The Nathanael you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old. Half of all Nathanaels born in England and Wales are between 11 and 28, and there are at least 1,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Nathanael - on average, only one in every 169 such rooms contains a Nathanael.

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Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.