as a Last Name
- 8,482
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Nathan
Meaning & Origins
Jewish, English, and German: from the Biblical Hebrew personal name Natan ‘given’ (i.e. by God). Sometimes this is also a Jewish short form of Jonathan or Nathaniel. The personal name was comparatively rare among non-Jews in the Middle Ages (although always common among Jews); as a modern surname it is most frequently Jewish.
| 4,234th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,482
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Nathan per capita
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