Manoel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manoel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Immanuel (God is with us).
- BRBrazil1 in 442(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 9.4K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 20K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #639 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 442 (inferred from the name graph)
478,590 people, 2022
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Immanuel (God is with us)
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manoel 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.
478,590 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Manoel 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.
In French, Variante d’Emmanuel; d’origine chaldéenne et druidique, «la force divine nous est intimement associée».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Portuguese form of EMMANUEL . The Portuguese king Manoel I (1469–1521; reigned 1495–1521) presided over a glittering period in Portuguese history, at a time when wealth was flowing in from Portugal's new conquests in both the East Indies and South America.
as a word
In Galician, a male given name, equivalent to English Emmanuel or Manuel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Deodoro da Fonsecab. 1827BRnot in their usual namePresident of Brazil (1827-1892)
- Manuel L. Quezonb. 1878PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
- Manuel Azañab. 1880ESnot in their usual nameprime minister of Spain, president of Spain (1880-1940)
- Manuel II of Portugalb. 1889PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1889–1932)
- Manuel Ávila Camachob. 1897MXnot in their usual name52th President of Mexico
- Manuel Antonio Noriega Morenob. 1934PAnot in their usual namePanamanian head of state (1934-2017)
- António Guterresb. 1949PTnot in their usual nameSecretary-General of the United Nations since 2017
- Raymond Domenechb. 1952FRnot in their usual nameFrench football manager (born 1952)
- Lopez Obradorb. 1953MXnot in their usual nameMexican politician. President of Mexico from 2018 to 2024
- Manuel Vallsb. 1962FRnot in their usual nameFrench and Spanish politician
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 592K | #51 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 591K | #21 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 479K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 477K | #48 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 474K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 464K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 448K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 422K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 373K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 295K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 190K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 105K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Manoel mean, and where does it come from?
- Immanuel (God is with us) Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Manoel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 479 thousand people named Manoel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manoel.
- Where is Manoel most common?
- Manoel is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 442 people carrying it.
- Is Manoel a male or female name?
- Manoel 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.
- What are other forms of the name Manoel?
- In the etymology graph, Manuel, Emmanuel and Emanuel are forms of the same name in other languages; Nelinho is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Manoel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 478,590 people named Manoel in 2022, about 1 in 442 residents.
- How common is Manoel compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Manoel is the 11th most common given name of 474,894 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/manoelThe 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, “Manoel” — the 11th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.