[renke1]

My own name is actually only used in the very country I live in. Unexpectedly, my daughter's name is apparently also used in Arabic countries, it means something like "Gift from Allah".

[thaumasiotes]

"Gift of god" is a pretty common name cross culturally. [Allah is not a name; it's just the ordinary word meaning "god".] The Hebrew version is Nathaniel [rather, that's the Anglicized form of the Hebrew version]; is your daughter's name similar?

[fsckboy]

the Hebrew "gift of God" is (also?) Matityahu --> Matthew (and why Matthew has two T's)