Emmanuel — #181 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Emmanuel

The Social Security Administration has registered 89,020 babies named Emmanuel between 1898 and 2024, spanning 127 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Emmanuel currently holds the #181 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 2,862 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emmanuel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 25,233 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Emmanuel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18,278 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Emmanuel in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emmanuel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 89,020 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.