Nathan (given name) explained
| Nathan |
| Pronunciation: | English: NAY-thǝn;
Hebrew: Nā-tān |
| Gender: | Male |
| Meaning: | "gift from God" |
Nathan is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Hebrew verb meaning gave (standard Hebrew Natan, Yiddish Nussen/Nosson, Tiberian Hebrew Nāṯān).
In the Bible
Notable people with this name
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- Nathan Camargo (born 2005), Brazilian footballer
- Nathan Carter (born 1990), Irish country singer
- Nathan Chen (born 1999), American figure skater
- Nathan Cleary (born 1997), Australian rugby league player
- Nate Clements (born 1979), American football player
- Nathan Coe (born 1984), Australian soccer player
- Nathan Cohen (critic) (1923–1971), Canadian theatre critic and broadcaster
- Nathan Cohen (rower) (born 1986), New Zealand rower
- Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly (born 1977), American historian, professor, and podcaster
- Nathan Connolly (born 1981), lead guitarist for Snow Patrol
- Nathan Cooper (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Cottrell (born 1996), American football player
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- Nathan Deal (born 1942), American politician and 82nd Governor of Georgia
- Nate Diaz (born 1985), American mixed martial artist and UFC fighter
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- Nate Ebner (born 1988), American football player and rugby Olympian
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- Nathan Hale (1755–1776), American patriot serving as a spy during the American Revolution
- Nathan Handwerker (1891–1974), Polish-American businessman
- Nathan Hartono (born 1991), Singaporean-Indonesian singer-songwriter
- Nathan Hauritz (born 1981), Australian cricketer
- Nathan Head (born 1980), British actor notable for his work in the horror genre
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- Nathan Lane (born 1956), American actor
- Nathan Larson (born 1970), American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and author
- Nathan Law (born 1993), Hong Kong politician
- Nathan Lawrence, American actor
- Nathan Lawson (ice hockey) (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Longpre (born 1988), Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Nathan Lopez (born 1991), Filipino actor
- Nathan Lukes (born 1994), American baseball player
- Nathan Lyon (born 1987), Australian cricketer
- Nathan Lyons (1930–2016), American photographer, curator and educator
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- Nate Mack (1891–1965), Polish-born American banker; co-founder of the Bank of Las Vegas
- Nathan MacKinnon (born 1995), Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Mavila (born 1995), English footballer
- Nathan Martorella (born 2001), American baseball player
- Nathan McCall (born 1955), American author
- Nate McLouth (born 1981), American baseball player
- Nathan Mensah (born 1998), Ghanaian basketball player
- Nathan Merritt (born 1982), Australian rugby player
- Nathan Méténier (born 1999), French climate activist
- Nathan Militzok (1923–2009), American basketball player
- Nathan Milstein (1903–1992), Ukrainian-American violinist
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- Nate Saint (1923–1956), American missionary pilot
- Nathan Santos (born 2001), Brazilian footballer
- Nathan Seiberg (born 1956), Israeli theoretical physicist
- Nathan Shepherd (born 1993), Canadian-American football player
- Nate Silver (born 1978), American statistician and writer
- Nathan Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (born 1985), British actor
- Nathan Sykes (born 1974), English rugby player
- Nathan James Sykes (born 1993), English singer, songwriter and record producer
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Fictional characters
- Nathan the Wise, eponymous protagonist in the 1779 play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Big Nate, eponymous comic strip character
- Nate the Great, eponymous protagonist of the book series by Marjorie W. Sharmat
- Nathan, a customer played by Andrew Black in the British web series Corner Shop Show.
- Nathan, a character in Me before you
- Nathan Bailey, a character in the British soap opera, Doctors
- Nathan Cuddington, a character in the British Soap opera, Brookside
- Nathan Daldry, a character in the 2012 young adult novel Every Day
- Nathan Detroit, from the stage musical Guys and Dolls, played by Frank Sinatra in the film adaptation.
- Nathan Drake, protagonist of the Uncharted video games
- Nathan Explosion, a character in the cartoon series Metalocalypse
- Nathan "Nate" Ford, the main character and "mastermind" in the action crime drama caper TV series Leverage
- Nathan Never, eponymous protagonist of the Italian science fiction comic book
- Nathan Petrelli, a character in the NBC science fiction series Heroes
- Nathan Prescott, antagonist of the Life Is Strange video games
- Nathan Roberts, a character in the Australian soap opera, Home and Away
- Nathan Sallery, a character in the British soap opera Doctors
- Nathan Scott, a character in the television series One Tree Hill
- Nathan Sears, a character in the Final Destination 5
- Nathan Stark, a character in the television series Eureka
- Nathan Summers, a Marvel Comic Book character who is a mutant and Super-Hero from the X-Men and X-Force
- Nathan Williams, a character in the British Soap opera EastEnders
- Nathan Young character from the British Channel 4 science fiction comedy-drama Misfits
- Nathan Zuckerman, narrator or protagonist in many of Philip Roth's works of fiction
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