Netanya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- neh-TAHN-yuh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Netanya is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “gift of God”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Netanya mean?
Hebrew: Hebrew Netanyah
“gift of God”
Netanya is also a coastal city in Israel, named after the American philanthropist Nathan Straus.
Is Netanya a girl's or a boy's name?
Netanya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Netanya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Netanya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1998, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.
Half of all the girls named Netanya in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.
Netanya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,790 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,650 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,062 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,286 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,713 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,970 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,544 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,054 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,216 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,244 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,031 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,521 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
Names like Netanya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anya, Anika, Navya, Aviva, Avani, Kavya, Armani, Navi, Nirvana, Priya, Anaya, Arya
Names related to Netanya
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Netanya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/netanya, updated 20 October 2026.