Emanuel
Emanuel is a boy's name that peaked in 2007, when it was the 256th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 574th. About 43,000 Emanuels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Emanuel boys named Emanuel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 54,855
- Estimated living today
- 43,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 256th
- Rank in 2025
- 574th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 99 / 54,756
How old the living Emanuels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 54,855 babies given the name since 1880, about 43,000 are alive — 78 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 3,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Variant of Emmanuel, borrowed from Spanish and from various other European languages.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Emanuels
- Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941)Greman chess player, World Chess champion
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)German composer
- Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884)German poet and playwright
- Emanuel Pogatetz (born 1983)Austrian association football player
- Emanuel Schikaneder (1751–1812)German actor and singer
- Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868)American artist
- Emanuel de Witte (1617–1692)Dutch painter
- Emanuel Mammana (born 1996)Argentine footballer
People named Emanuel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Emanuel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Emanuel is most concentrated in Florida (1.9×), Nevada (1.8×), New York (1.7×), Georgia (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Emanuel peaked:
Emanuel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Emanuel | 5,419 | — |
| France boys | Emanuel | 1,285 | 931st |
| Poland boys | Emanuel | 1,063 birth registrations | 120th |
| England and Wales boys | Emanuel | 940 | 579th |
| Switzerland boys | Emanuel | 846 | 189th |
| Sweden boys | Emanuel | 515 | 91st |
| Norway boys | Emanuel | 411 | 234th |
| Belgium boys | Emanuel | 368 | 394th |
| Austria boys | Emanuel | 122 | 59th |
| Ireland boys | Emanuel | 109 | 402nd |
| Scotland boys | Emanuel | 15 | 516th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Emanuel: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Emanuel | 768 | 0.062% | 155th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Emanuel | 47 | 0.011% | 303rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Emanuel | 31 | 0.048% | 97th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Emanuel is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.10% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Emanuel: rank by region
In 2025, Emanuel was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Emanuel | 317 | 18 |
| Brussels | Emanuel | 153 | 8 |
In 2025, Emanuel was given 2 times or more in 9 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Emanuel | 243 | 2 |
| Lubuskie | Emanuel | 116 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Emanuel | 148 | 7 |
| Mazowieckie | Emanuel | 189 | 7 |
| Opolskie | Emanuel | 108 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Emanuel | 158 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Emanuel | 155 | 6 |
| Wielkopolskie | Emanuel | 175 | 5 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Emanuel | 168 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Emanuel appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (153rd), Province of East Flanders (198th) and Province of Antwerp (251st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Emanuel by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 40 | 265th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Emanuel among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Emanuel | 1,012 | 4,949 |
| Finland boys | Emanuel | 86 | 1,101 |
| the Netherlands girls | Emanuel | 6 | 194 |
| Finland girls | Emanuel | — | 6 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,101 who carry it, 86 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Emanuel lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,408 men called Emanuel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soria | Emanuel | 8 | 0.175 | 438 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Emanuel | 52 | 0.167 | 516 |
| Balears, Illes | Emanuel | 103 | 0.165 | 495 |
| Valladolid | Emanuel | 38 | 0.148 | 469 |
| Palmas, Las | Emanuel | 82 | 0.141 | 673 |
| Guadalajara | Emanuel | 20 | 0.138 | 481 |
Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Emanuel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.