Emmanual
Emmanual was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,056 among boys’ names; 484 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmanual by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmanual?
#11,056 among boys’ names, 2025
Emmanual rose from #12,618 in 2015 to #11,056 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 3.5 per million.
22 babies in 2000, the peak
Emmanual peaked in 2000, when 22 boys were given it, #3,666 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,056 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,858 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,160 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,267 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,601 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,796 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,983 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,341 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,618 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,109 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | #6,341 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,982 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,630 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,345 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,760 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,599 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,236 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,573 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,017 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,949 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,458 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,666 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,598 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,958 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,380 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,684 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,241 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,198 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,876 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,776 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,565 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,831 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,008 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,960 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,096 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,038 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,532 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,732 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,093 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,099 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,152 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,471 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,231 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmanual a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmanual has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmanual: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmanual, and how old are they?
An estimated 469 Americans named Emmanual and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 922 people named Emmanual (8 women and girls, 914 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 445 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 147,442 babies since 1880, Emmanual is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 2,554 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Emmanual
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 Emmanual and names like it
- Compare Emmanual and EmmanuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmmanual peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Emmanual.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmanual alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.