Given name & surname · also Latin
Nethaniah
“Yah has given”
Nethaniah is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew.
Original Hebrewנתניה
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Nethaniah means “Yah has given.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Nethaniah comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Nathanias, from Ancient Greek Ναθανίας, from Hebrew נְתַנְיָה (netanyá).
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Nethaniah appears in 2 Kings 25:23-25, Jeremiah 40:14, Jeremiah 40:8 and 2 other passages.
- 2 Kings 25:23-25
- Jeremiah 40:14
- Jeremiah 40:8
- 1 Chronicles 25:2
- 1 Chronicles 25:12
From biblical name research
Nethaniah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nethaniah’s family of names
In English usage, Nethaniah shares an earlier linguistic root with NETANYAHU. In English usage, Nethaniah has a related form in נתניהו.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 16
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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