Nathan

Nathan is a Hebrew name and means "giver." Because Nathan appears inside two other names, Jonathan and Nathaniel, Nathan is sometimes considered a short form of those names. In the Old Testament, King David had a son named Nathan, and Nathan was also a prophet who served King David, but who also rebuked him after the Bathsheba incident, and intervened when Adonijah attempted to take the throne for himself. Much later, another Nathan, Nathan Hale, was an American Revolution hero who said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," before being hanged by the British. Nathan is currently an internationally popular name, holding a position in the top 30 most popular names for boys in not only the U.S., but in nearly all English speaking countries.