Talk:Nathanael

The last sentences are confusing. According to the List_of_names_referring_to_El article, Nathanael means both (and linguistically, Nathaniel is just a variant transliteration of Nathanael...) Perhaps someone wants to fix it...--Sturmde 23:35, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A significant number of "authorities" think that Nathanael is Matthew (both mean ("gift of God"). Probably a larger number have no opinion on the matter. I will clean this up later if there is no objection. --Peter Kirby 07:15, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Every version of the Bible that I found uses the "ael" ending for Nathanael. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.16.155.210 (talk • contribs) 14:07, 5 September 2007

According to Google,

Results 1 - 10 of about 459,000 for Nathanial
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,960,000 for Nathanael
Results 1 - 10 of about 16,000,000 for Nathaniel

Nathaniel seems to be the normal English transliteration, with Nathanael also being relatively popular. I have never seen "nathanial" before: it may be a common typo or recent innovation rather than an established variant. I haven't heard of "al" being used for "el" before. On looking at U.S. Census graphs on two different baby-naming sites, it looks like Nathaniel is the traditional spelling, with the others appearing between 1960-1980. --Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.65.118.46 (talk) 22:16, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A Social Security Online search shows that "Nathaniel" has been in the top 244 names since 1980, top 201 since 1971 and the top 95 since 1977,

while Nathanael didn't rank in the 1000 names until 1972(982) and remains unpopular.

Nathanial pops up at 927th place once in 1908 and dissappears again until 1974.

--Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.65.118.46 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 25 March 2009

Names included that aren't "Nathanael"?[edit]

why are there names like "Nate" in the list of Notable people? In an article that is about the name "Nathanael"? — I'ma editor2022 ^{(🗣️💬 |📖📚)} 17:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nathanael as a Surname[edit]

This page should be expanded to include the usage of Nathanael as a surname. Certain notable people with such surname who already have dedicated Wikipedia articles include:

Ike Lek (talk) 22:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]