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I'd never use it; too long, too complicated and, in English-speaking society anyway, too typically American.

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There is an extraordinary Afrikaans stage and TV personality here in South Africa whose name is Nataniël, pronounced
nah TAH nee ul. I'm willing to make an exception for him, though I still wouldn't use the name. But it does sound better in Afrikaans, to my ears anyway.