Comments for the name Nathaniel

I think Nathaniel is a classic name.

One of the main characters of the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud is Nathaniel.

I love this name, the only thing I don't like is when people call Nathaniel Nathan for short or when they call Nathan Nate for short. Nathaniel can be Nate for short but not Nathan and Nathan can be Nathan not Nate. It bugs me, call them their name not another form like Nathan for Nathaniel. It just doesn't fit.

Just an FYI to a previous comment. Nathan CAN be used as a short form for Nathaniel. Nathaniel is from Nathanael. I found the following when looking up Nathan.

NATHAN - Means "giver" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of a prophet and also a son of King David. This name can also function as a short form of JONATHAN or NATHANAEL.

Fancy lad Nathanial Mayweather is the character played by Chris Elliott in the film Cabin Boy.

I love this name! I found it in the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. I think it sounds regal.

I am honestly in LOVE with this name. I adore it. It's just such an amazing name. It looks great written down, it sounds great and it works so well with other names. Some people might believe that Nathaniel is a -little- old fashioned, but I disagree. It's just...wow. Amazing.

Awesome. It's one of my cousins' names. It sounds great; looks awesome on paper. It's classic, it has great nickname possibilities (my cousin goes by Nate) but there are also others. We call him Nater Tater. ;) Anyway, it's an awesome name that would age beautifully and I would use it. My combination is Lucius Nathaniel, which I adore.

I really love this name. It is very sweet and I always picture a dark curly haired boy. Also a very sweet and loving boy, I am just in love with it. In the Movie "Love Comes Softly", there is a cute guy in there with this name. It is how I fell in love with it. If I ever had a boy I would probably name him this.

It´s also the Czech form. Name Day: 24th August.

I really like this name. I know two guys named Nathaniel, one of them we call Nate and the other we call Nathaniel.

I like this name a lot. A good nickname is Nathan, or maybe Nate.

Apart from Hawthorne, there's another American writer with this name: Nathaniel West, the author of "The Day of the Locust" and "Miss Lonelyhearts".

This is my name and I'm glad it is. I just wonder where I got it from because no one in my family has a name similar to it. I liked the formal version when I was young, but now I just go by Nate. I never liked the nickname Nathan, neither did my parents nor anybody in my family really, I just hate the sound of it.

I pronounce this nuh-THAN-yul, not nay-THAN-yul.

Nathaniel is my brother's name, but I never really it liked that much. It's just too long and sounds too dorky. Other kids (and some adults) sometimes made fun of his name by calling him Thanny or Gnat, and my mother would not allow the use of nicknames. After I read The Scarlet Letter and wrote a paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne, I disliked the name even more.

Football player Joe Montana and Jennifer Wallace have a son Nathaniel Montana (born 3 October 1989).

The Greek form of Nathaniel is ναθαναηλ.

Nathaniel is Celeste's father in the PC game "Keepsake".

A main character of Elizabeth Speare's 1958 award-winning young adult novel _The Witch of Blackbird Pond_ is Nathaniel "Nat" Eaton. Millions of grade school girls have fallen in love with him along with Kit Tyler, the spunky heroine.

I love the name Nathaniel! I like all of the spellings. Nathaniel is one of my favorite names ever.

Oh my gosh, I absolutely LOVE this name! It sounds great and looks great. This name can be young or older sounding. I love the nicknames Nate or Nathan (but I prefer Nate). If I have a boy his name will definitely be this. LOVE IT!

Nathaniel Archibald is a main character in the television series 'Gossip Girl'.

I love this name. It sounds classic and impressive. One of my best friends is called Nathaniel and he really suits it.

On the HBO show Six Feet Under, the main character's name is Nathaniel Fisher jr., named after his late father, Nathaniel sr. Everyone calls Nathaniel jr. Nate. I really like the nickname Nate, but I really dislike Nathan!

I think the name is kind of boring, but I like it just the same, probably because my brother is a different version of this name (Nathanial, with an a instead of an e).

One of my best friends was named Nathaniel. He hated it. He told everyone his full name was Nathan and went by either Nathan or Nate. I always called him by his full name though(; I like it!

This name just sounds dumb and girly to me, Nate is an ok nickname but a bit boring, Nathan is the best form and it's only ok.

If this was my name I'd go by my middle name.

Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1585-1627) was the first English amateur painter of note.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts) was an iconic American novelist.

English actor Nathaniel Parker (b. 1962) is a famous bearer of this name.

In my experience, Nathaniel is most often pronounced nə-THAN-yəl (rather than nay-THAN-yəl).