Immanuel
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah in the Bible
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Immanuel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 57K
- USUnited States1 in 79K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 522 (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Namibia, 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, also spelled Emmanuel, is a classic biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is with us.' It carries a deep spiritual significance and has been used for centuries, often associated with hope, divine presence, and the Christmas season.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Immanuel is read(measured from records)
Immanuel is one spelling over 5 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.
- English44%
A figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah in the Bible.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Immanuel in Indonesian.
- German8.8%
) Imanuel: aus der Bibel übernommener männl. Vom. hebräischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Spanish7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Immanuel in Spanish.
- Hindi7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Immanuel in Hindi.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Immanuel 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 | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Immanuel | 45 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 522 | 23 | — | 13 |
| US United States | — | 4,225 | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Immanuel | 276 |
| GH Ghana | #520 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Immanuel | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 3 | Immanuel | 116 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 989 | 1 in 17K | 975 | Immanuel | 28 |
| FI Finland | — | 617 | 1 in 9K | 1.8K | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 42 | 1 in 18K | 42 | — | 1 |
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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Immanuel 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.
Immanuel, also spelled Emmanuel, is a classic biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is with us.' It carries a deep spiritual significance and has been used for centuries, often associated with hope, divine presence, and the Christmas season.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name is derived from the Hebrew words 'immānū' ('with us') and 'ēl' ('God'), literally meaning 'God is with us'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In Swedish, Immanuel är ett bibliskt namn från hebreiskans ‘ immānū ’ēl ’Gud med oss’. En bl.a. svensk form är → Emanuel. En känd namnbärare var den tyske filosofen Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 26 mars.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Dios está con nosotros
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Immanuel Kantb. 1724DEGerman philosopher (1724-1804)
- Immanuel Bekkerb. 1785DEGerman classical scholar and philologist (1785-1871)
- Immanuel Nobelb. 1801SESwedish architect, engineer, inventor and industrialist (1801-1872)
- Wilhelm Bleekb. 1827DEnot in their usual nameGerman linguist (1827-1875)
- Charles Immanuel Forsyth Majorb. 1843CHzoologist (1843-1923)
- Immanuel Velikovskyb. 1895USRussian, Israeli and American author (1895–1979)
- Immanuel Wallersteinb. 1930USAmerican sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)
- Kenneth Paalb. 1997NLnot in their usual nameSurinamese association football player (born 1997)
- Immanuel Quickleyb. 1999USAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
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 68 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,431 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.8K | #566 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 975 | #1,068 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 617 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 168 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 42 | #552 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 23 | #9 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #4,431 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 14 | #18,281 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 3 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 3 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Immanuel come from?
- Immanuel, also spelled Emmanuel, is a classic biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'God is with us.' It carries a deep spiritual significance and has been used for centuries, often associated with h… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Immanuel?
- In the etymology graph, Manuel, Emmanuel and Manoel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Immanuel mean?
- In English, A figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah in the Bible.
- Is Immanuel a male or female name?
- Immanuel 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 Immanuel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Immanuel in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled immanuel.
- How common is the name Immanuel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,225 people named Immanuel in 2020, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Immanuel compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Immanuel is the 520th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/immanuelThe 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, “Immanuel” — the 520th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.