Manuel
Manuel is the 1,288th most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,670 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,200.
By the numbers
- People
- 26,670
- Rank
- 1,288th
- How common
- 1 in 11,200
- Per 100,000
- 8.9
Where the name comes from
short for Emanuel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Manuel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Manuel
- Don Juan Manuel (1282–1349)Spanish prince and writer
- Simone Manuel (born 1996)American swimmer
- Juana Manuel (1339–1381)Queen of Castile and Leon
- Richard Manuel (1943–1986)Canadian musician and composer
- Carlos Manuel (born 1958)Portuguese footballer
- Niklaus Manuel (1484–1530)Swiss artist
- Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608–1666)Portuguese writer, politician and military officer
- Bimbo Manuel (born 1958)Nigerian actor
People named Manuel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Manuel
Also a first name
Manuel has been given to 192,742 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2005. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.