Emanual
Emanual was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 545 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emanual by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emanual?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,715, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 2001, the peak
Emanual peaked in 2001, when 22 boys were given it, #3,748 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #12,715 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,769 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,851 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,335 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,965 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,106 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,245 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,452 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,387 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,946 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 18 | #5,067 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,867 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,965 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,131 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,106 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,205 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,748 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,442 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,409 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,471 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,765 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,683 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,879 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,076 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,897 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,170 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,548 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,768 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,345 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,531 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,752 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,502 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,531 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,800 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,693 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,027 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,713 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,102 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,541 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,270 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,151 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,124 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,994 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,755 | 8.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,143 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,677 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,242 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,167 | 2.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,657 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,676 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,688 | 4.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,930 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,833 | 5.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,624 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,502 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,353 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,674 | 6.5 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,957 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emanual a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emanual has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emanual: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emanual, and how old are they?
An estimated 474 Americans named Emanual and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,020 people named Emanual (5 women and girls, 1,015 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 484 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 147,461 babies since 1880, Emanual is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,554 babies recorded by SSA was a Emanual (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Emanual
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Emanual and names like it
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- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Emanual.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emanual alive today were born 1997-2012.
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