Emanuela
Emanuela was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,513 among girls’ names; 624 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emanuela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emanuela mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Emanuela is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Emanuele”
Female equivalent of Emanuele; cognate to French Emmanuelle or Spanish Manuela.
/e.ma.nuˈɛ.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emanuela?
#8,513 among girls’ names, 2025
Emanuela fell from #5,885 in 2015 to #8,513 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 7.5 per million.
22 babies in 2015, the peak
Emanuela peaked in 2015, when 22 girls were given it, #5,885 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,513 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,722 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,169 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,526 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,630 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,014 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,798 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,886 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,113 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,537 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,885 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,264 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,087 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,413 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,208 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,872 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,442 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,126 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,173 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,872 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,350 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,180 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,312 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,029 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,357 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,038 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,180 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,692 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,191 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,343 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,986 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,047 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,154 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,955 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,146 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,526 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,891 | 5.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,891 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,123 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,471 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,501 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,556 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,434 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,419 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,867 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,861 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,065 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,723 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,644 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,706 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,802 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,865 | 3.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,608 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,024 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,641 | 4.8 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,645 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,414 | 7.5 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,327 | 7.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emanuela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emanuela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys 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 Emanuela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emanuela, and how old are they?
An estimated 575 Americans named Emanuela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,254 people named Emanuela (1,251 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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 3,538 babies since 1880, Emanuela is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 110 babies (11%), again the third most given.
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 Emanuela
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 Emanuela and names like it
- Compare Emanuela and EmmanuellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmanuela peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emanuela since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Emanuela: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Emanuela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emanuela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.