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The first name 
Nethaniel

Nethaniel is a first name for boys.

Nethaniel – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Nethaniel has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Nethaniel. That means that a boy named Nethaniel is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nethaniel.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Nethaniel

Nethaniel -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Nethaniel is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Nethaniel can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Nethaniel. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Nethaniel living in one state or another. (If your name is Nethaniel and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Nethaniel is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all male residents are called Nethaniel – that’s just one in 3,266,336! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Nethaniel, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Nethaniel has 9 letters 
and begins with an N

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With nine letters, the name Nethaniel is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.

Other names with 
N, e, t, h, a, n, i, e and l

If you take all the letters in the name Nethaniel – N, e, t, h, a, n, i, e and l – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Natheniel.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Nethaniel

If your name is Nethaniel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Nethaniel

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nethaniel, you can simply say:

Nut

Elephant

Tiger

Hat

Apple

Nut

Igloo

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Nethaniel is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Nethaniel in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Nethaniel

Nethaniel

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Nethaniel

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Nethaniel is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

N
E
T
H
A
N
I
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Nethaniel

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

N
E
T
H
A
N
I
E
L

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nethaniel sounds like this: