boys:
10.5k births since 1880
#1136 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.5k births since 1880
#2582 (67th percentile)
The name Nathanial is the #2,582 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,515 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 66.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,136 (75.2% percentile) for all time with 10,515 births since 1880.
Nathanial has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Nathanial is available in 118 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Nathanial reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 39.7% percentile (ranked #480) with 182 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 182 births per million (ranked 39.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nathanial ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 9.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nathanial".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Nathanial", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 20 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Nathaniel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Nathaniel..
Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Nathanial. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.5% confident that Nathanial is pronounced as nuh-THA-nyuhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAY-thuh-nee-uhl, at 15.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like N AH0 TH AE1 N Y AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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