Emanuel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emanuel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Angola it is the 49th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as Immanuel (biblical character).
- PTPortugal≈1 in 987(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.1K
- RORomania≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 290 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Immanuel (figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Emanuel is read(measured from records)
Emanuel is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish61%
Immanuel (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Emanuel in English.
- Portuguese11%
Immanuel (figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emanuel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #812 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | — | Emanuel | 23 |
| BR Brazil | #336 | 151,816 | 1 in 1.4K | 152K | Emanuel | 180 |
| AR Argentina | #120 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1.8K | Emanuel | 143 |
| US United States | — | 38,945 | 1 in 8.5K | 39K | Emanuel | 373 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30,278 | 1 in 337 | 30K | — | 29 |
| AO Angola | #49 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Emanuel | 48 |
| RO Romania | #212 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Emanuel | 97 |
| PT Portugal | #103 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 987 | listed | Emanuel | 143 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Emanuel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Rousse, São Paulo, Buenos Aires
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Emanuel är en form av → Immanuel. En känd namnbärare var den svenske vetenskaps mannen Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 26 mars.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, forma reduzida ou apocopada de Emanuele
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Hebrew, Hebrew Immanuel 'God with us'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emmanuel Swedenborgb. 1688SEnot in their usual nameSwedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachb. 1714DEGerman composer (1714–1788)
- Emanuel Leutzeb. 1816USAmerican artist (1816-1868)
- Rudolf Clausiusb. 1822DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
- Emanuel Laskerb. 1868PLGreman chess player, World Chess champion (1868–1941)
- Alfred Emanuel Smithb. 1873USAmerican statesman and governor (1873–1944)
- John Randolphb. 1915USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1915–2004)
- Sepp Piontekb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player and manager
- Manu Ginóbilib. 1977ARnot in their usual nameArgentine basketball player (born 1977)
- Manuel Neuerb. 1986DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 127 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 152K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 150K | #224 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 83K | #533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39K | #1,066 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30K | #144 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 25K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 3.4K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.8K | #83 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #224 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 513 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 218 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 218 | — |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Emanuel come from?
- Immanuel (figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Emanuel mean?
- In Spanish, Immanuel (biblical character)
- Is Emanuel a male or female name?
- Emanuel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Emanuel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 202 thousand people named Emanuel in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emanuel.
- How common is the name Emanuel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 151,816 people named Emanuel in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Emanuel compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Emanuel is the 812th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Emanuel?
- In the etymology graph, Manuel, Emmanuel and Manoel are forms of the same name in other languages; Nelinho is a recorded short or pet form.
What do you want to know about Emanuel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emanuelThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Emanuel” — the 812th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.