Emmanuel

What Emmanuel means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Emmanuel yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #151 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Emmanuel?

US: Falling: down from #151 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #239 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2015, when 2,749 boys got the name (#151 that year). First in the US records in 1898.

How common

• About 1 in 839 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,689 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (2.24 per 1,000 boys), AZ (2.17 per 1,000 boys), TX (1.99 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Emmanuel is #179 in the US and #279 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Emmanuel were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Emanuel513 US · 41 E&W
• Immanuel168 US · 25 E&W
• Amanuel14 US · 5 E&W
• Ammanuel6 US
• Emmanual6 US
• Emmanuelle5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Emmanuel

Boys

• Nehemiah#429“consolation of Yahweh”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Johan#572Variant of Joan, meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Eli#104“ascent”^*

For a sister

• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Azaria#638Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1988, with 6 babies
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Danna#394“of Anna”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Emmanuel’s. Rank is US 2025.