Emmanuel

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Emmanuel boys named Emmanuel

By the numbers

Total US births

91,451

Estimated living today

88,000

Median age today

18

Peak year

2008

Best rank

145th

Rank in 2025

179th

First recorded

1898

Girls / boys

372 / 91,079

How old the living Emmanuels are

born that year still alive today

Of the 91,451 babies given the name since 1898, about 88,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 43,000 of them are children and 850 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Variant of Immanuel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Emmanuels

• Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772)Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
• Emmanuel Adebayor (born 1984)Togolese soccer player
• Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836)French priest and statesman
• Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995)Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
• Emmanuel Petit (born 1970)French footballer
• Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 1960)French-Belgian writer
• Emmanuel Eboué (born 1983)Ivorian footballer
• Emmanuel Mounier (1905–1950)French philosopher

People named Emmanuel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Emmanuel is most common

• CA18,613
• TX12,887
• NY7,947
• FL6,185
• IL4,739
• GA3,067
• NJ2,955
• NC2,542
• AZ2,218
• PA1,995

Relative to how many babies each state records, Emmanuel is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), California (2.1×), Arizona (2.0×), Florida (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular boys’ names the year Emmanuel peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Ethan
• Joshua
• Daniel
• Alexander

All the names of 2008

Emmanuel elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Emmanuel: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Emmanuel is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.05% of children were given it – 54 of them.

Emmanuel: rank by region

In 2025, Emmanuel was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2025, Emmanuel was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Emmanuel appears in the lists for Province of Liège (147th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Emmanuel by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Emmanuel among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 2,400 who carry it, 530 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Emmanuel lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 4,331 men called Emmanuel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Emma
• Emmett
• Emmitt
• Emmy
• Emmie
• Emmalee
• Emmalyn
• Emmaline
• Emmet
• Emmeline
• Emmalynn
• Emmit

Emmanuel against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Emmanuel vs Emma
• Emmanuel vs Emmett
• Emmanuel vs Emmitt
• Emmanuel vs Emmy
• Emmanuel vs Emmie
• Emmanuel vs Emmalee

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