Emmanuela
Emmanuela was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,621 among girls’ names; 718 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmanuela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmanuela?
#6,621 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmanuela fell from #4,520 in 2015 to #6,621 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 10.6 per million.
31 babies in 2015, the peak
Emmanuela peaked in 2015, when 31 girls were given it, #4,520 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,621 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,703 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,561 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,380 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,777 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,556 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,731 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,604 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,847 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,500 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,520 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,794 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,365 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,444 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,210 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,292 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,267 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,182 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,849 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,430 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,078 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,422 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,879 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,517 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,057 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,274 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,392 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,228 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,258 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,851 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,673 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,242 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,048 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,956 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,587 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,529 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,237 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,551 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,543 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,595 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,544 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,372 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,682 | 4.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,852 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmanuela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmanuela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmanuela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmanuela, and how old are they?
An estimated 709 Americans named Emmanuela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 994 people named Emmanuela (979 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 630 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 4,764 babies since 1880, Emmanuela is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 125 babies (14%), again the third most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmanuelle | 1,722 | 33 | 2012 |
| Emmanuella | 1,438 | 54 | 2017 |
| Emmanuela | 718 | 17 | 2015 |
| Emanuela | 624 | 12 | 2015 |
| Emanuella | 262 | 9 | 2011 |
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 Emmanuela
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 Emmanuela and names like it
- Compare Emmanuela and EmmanuelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmanuela peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmanuela since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Emmanuela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmanuela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.