Nathaniel

Like "Jonathan", this name means "God gave" or "God has given". "el" is one of many biblical names for God (and equates to the name Allah in Islam), as is the "jo" of "Jonathan". In biblical Hebrew, it was normal for the verb to come before the subject, as in this name. 'nathan' is נתן in both biblical and modern Hebrew and is the 'he' form of the past tense of the verb לתת ('la-tet') - 'to give'. Incidentally, the 'el' of this name is the same as that in 'Michael' ('mi-kha-el' - 'who is like God?').