first name
NATHANIAL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 8,361 people named Nathanial, 69.8% reported their origin as White, 11.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 9% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nathanial peaked in 1999, when 371 babies got the name.
At least 10,578 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Nathanial by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,320. The largest share of babies named Nathanial, 40.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nathanial is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nathanial has been most common in Washington (2.4×), Indiana (2.3×), and Wisconsin (2.2×), and least common in Alabama (0.31×).
7,030 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nathanial, most common first.
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