Emmanuel
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Immanuel (Biblical figure whose birth is foretold)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪˈmænjuəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Emmanuel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 119(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 136
- GHGhana≈1 in 195
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Emmanuel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, 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)
Means God is with us in Hebrew, in all Baden, 1809.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Emmanuel is read(measured from records)
Emmanuel is one spelling over 4 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.
- English35%
Immanuel (Biblical figure whose birth is foretold).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Emmanuel in Spanish.
- French19%
From Hebrew Immanu’el, 'God is with us'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
du nom hébreu ‘Immā́nū’ḗl « Dieu (est) avec nous »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Swahili11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Emmanuel in Swahili.
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)
Emmanuel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #4 | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 119 | — | Emmanuel | 200 |
| TZ Tanzania | #92 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 136 | 1 | Emmanuel | 54 |
| KE Kenya | #758 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 264 | — | Emmanuel | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 151,816as Emanuel | 1 in 1.4K | 152K | — | 6 |
| GH Ghana | #1 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 195 | — | Emmanuel | 155 |
| US United States | #857 | 87,988 | 1 in 3.8K | 88K | Emmanuel | 493 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30,278as Emanuel | 1 in 337 | 30K | — | 50 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Emmanuel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Means God is with us in Hebrew, in all Baden, 1809.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In German, from Hebrew ʿimmānū-ʾēl 'God is with us'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Biblical name (meaning ‘God is with us’ in Hebrew) used for the promised Messiah, as prophesied by Isaiah (7:14; referred to in Matthew 1:23). The Authorized Version of the Bible uses the Hebrew form Immanuel in the Old Testament, Emmanuel in the New. Variant: Emanuel.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Jesus Christb. 7ILnot in their usual namecentral figure of Christianity (c. 6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33)
- Rudolf Clausiusb. 1822DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
- Emanuel Laskerb. 1868PLnot in their usual nameGreman chess player, World Chess champion (1868–1941)
- Man Rayb. 1890USnot in their usual nameAmerican and French visual artist (1890–1976)
- Ferdinand E. E. Marcosb. 1917PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
- Robert Piresb. 1973FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1973)
- Emmanuel Macronb. 1977FRPresident of France since 2017
- Emmanuel Ebouéb. 1983CIIvorian footballer (born 1983)
- Chris Paulb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 156 sources across 82 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 88K | #602 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.2K | #2,642 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.7K | #4,972 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.7K | #1,154 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 668 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 557 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 343 | #602 |
Reference works 8
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Emmanuel come from?
- Means God is with us in Hebrew, in all Baden, 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What are other forms of the name Emmanuel?
- In the etymology graph, Manuel, Manoel and Emanuel are forms of the same name in other languages; Manny is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Emmanuel a male or female name?
- Emmanuel 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 Emmanuel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Emmanuel in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emmanuel.
- How do you pronounce Emmanuel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪˈmænjuəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Emmanuel mean?
- In English, Immanuel (Biblical figure whose birth is foretold).
- How common is the name Emmanuel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 87,988 people named Emmanuel in 2020, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Emmanuel compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Emmanuel is the 4th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emmanuelThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Emmanuel” — the 4th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.