Natnael

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Natnael is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia. In Eritrea it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia1 in 2.7K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 397K
  • EREritrea1 in 111

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.7K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
90 ●

3.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 20K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Natnael is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia#1331,4491.2K rec.——Natnael31
US United States—8381.5K rec.1 in 397K838Natnael90
SE Sweden—519287 rec.1 in 20K519Natnael22
ER Eritrea#163847 rec.—#40Natnael10
NO Norway—226△44 rec.1 in 24K676Natnael9
FR France—199132 rec.——Natnael31
CA Canada—16155 rec.—5Natnael23
GB United Kingdom—15499 rec.—listedNatnael28
DE Germany—148140 rec.—listedNatnael34
BR Brazil—1022 rec.—47Natnael8
PL Poland—52△6 rec.1 in 736K52Natnael8
AU Australia—5149 rec.——Natnael11

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.8K23%
  • 1.2K15%
  • French6939%
  • Norwegian Bokmål6769%
  • Amharic6679%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,77723%
1,15115%
French6939%
Norwegian Bokmål6769%
Amharic6679%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Over time●

010203020002010202026 · 2016

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Natnael in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1991–2025
Yearrecords
19915
19987
19997
200016
200112
200211
20039
200417
20059
200613
200716
200812
200915
20108
201115
201213
201313
201420
201514
201626
201715
201822
201923
202019
20219
202213
20239
20248
202516

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

199020002010Natnael Berhane, b. 1991Natnael Mebrahtom, b. 1998Natnael Tesfatsion, b. 1999Natnael McDonald, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Natnael
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020838#14,140
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—676#2,077
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—519#2,697
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020368—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019340—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018306—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017270—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016231—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025226—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024219—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023205—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015189—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Natnael?
We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Natnael (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Natnael have the most bearers?
Natnael is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled natnael.
How common is Natnael compared with other names?
In Ethiopia, Natnael is the 133rd most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
Is Natnael a male or female name?
Natnael is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Natnael” — the 133rd most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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