Amanuel
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Amanuel is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 620(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 11K
- NONorway1 in 18K
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 Amanuel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 620 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled አማኑኤል in ET Ethiopia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Amanuel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #23 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 620 | 1 | አማኑኤል | 47 |
| US United States | — | 4,225as Immanuel | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Amanuel | 181 |
| ER Eritrea | #2 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 948 | 627 | Amanuel | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 989as Immanuel | 1 in 17K | 975 | Amanuel | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 942 | 1 in 11K | 942 | Amanuel | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 617as Immanuel | 1 in 9K | 1.8K | — | 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: Students of the World is a platform providing cultural insights since 1995.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); The page presents a list of the most popular baby names in Eritrea, published by Names.org.. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Manny McCarthyb. 1902not in their usual name(1902–1994) axeman
- Amanuel Iyassub. 1981EREritrean association football player
- Amanuel Meselb. 1990EREritrean distance runner
- Amanuel Millionb. 1991ERcyclist
- Amanuel Gebrezgabihierb. 1994EREritrean road cyclist
- Amanuel Tsegayb. 1995EREritrean cyclist
- Amanuel Mengisb. 1995EREritrean cyclist
- Amanuel MellesERCanadian community organizer
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 564 | #41,581 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 283 | #3,116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 274 | #71,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 129 | #123,314 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #58,512 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Is Amanuel a male or female name?
- Amanuel is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Amanuel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 213 thousand people named Amanuel in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled አማኑኤል.
- How common is the name Amanuel?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 942 people named Amanuel, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Amanuel compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Amanuel is the 23rd most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amanuel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amanuelThe 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, “Amanuel” — the 23rd most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.