Nathan (given name)

Nathan

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	"[God] has given"
Other names
Related names	Nathanael, Nathaniel, Jonathan

Nathan is a masculine given name. It is derived from Hebrew נתן meaning [God] has given (standard Hebrew Natan, Yiddish Nussen or Nosson, Tiberian Hebrew Nāṯān). Familiar forms of Nathan used in English include Nat, Nath (pronounced nay-th) and Nate.

In the Hebrew Bible

• Nathan the Prophet, who lived in the time of Kings David and Solomon
• Nathan, son of David and his wife Bathsheba (1 Chr 3:5; Luke 3:31)
• In 1 Kings 4:5 Nathan is the name of the father of Azariah and of the father of Zabad, two of Solomon's chief administrators. It is not clear whether both men had the same father
• In 2 Samuel 23:36 Nathan from Zobah is listed as the father of Igal
• In 1 Chronicles 2:36 another Nathan is listed as a descendant of Jerahmeel, of the tribe of Judah
• In 1 Chronicles 11:38 yet another Nathan is the brother of Joel, one of David's elite warriors
• In Ezra 8:15–16 Nathan is the name of one of Ezra's companions who are sent to Iddo to ask for temple workers to replace the missing Levites
• In Ezra 10:38–44 Nathan son of Binnui is listed as one who divorced a foreign wife and sent her and her children away

In later times

• Rabbi Nathan, 2nd century tanna
• Nathan of Gaza, 17th century "prophet"
• Nathan Beauregard (1890s-1970), American musician
• Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), Civil War general in the Confederate Army
• Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937), Austrian journalist and Jewish philosopher
• Nathan Coe, Australian soccer player
• Nathan Einhorn, American journalist
• Nathan Fagan-Gayle (born 1986), British musician known simply as Nathan
• Nathan Hale (1755-1776), an American patriot serving as a spy during the American Revolution
• Nathan Handwerker (1891-1974), Polish-American entrepreneur
• Nathan Hauritz (born 1981), Australian cricketer
• Nathan Lane, American actor
• Nathan McCall (born 1955), American author
• Nathan Milstein (1903-1992), Ukrainian-American violinist
• Nathan Robertson (born 1977), English badminton player
• Nate Saint (1923–1956), American missionary pilot
• Nathan Gamble (born 1998), American actor

Fictional characters

• Prince Nathan in the comic strip Prince Valiant
• Nathan Explosion in the cartoon series, "Metalocalypse"
• Nathan der Weise (English Nathan the Wise) the main figure in the play by the same name written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, published in 1779.
• Nathan Zuckerman, a narrator or protagonist in many of Philip Roth's works of fiction.
• Nathan Algren, protagonist of the film "The Last Samurai".
• Nathan Petrelli, a fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes.

See also

• Nathan (disambiguation page)
• Nathan (surname)
• Jonathan (name)
• Nathanael
• All pages beginning with Nathan