Popular Names
NATHANIEL Name
| Name: | NATHANIEL |
| Gender: | Male |
| Origin/Usage: | Biblical (Variant), English, Hebrew |
| Meaning: | gift of god |
Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."