Emmanuelle
Emmanuelle is given to both girls and boys: 28 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,801 among girls’ names and #12,579 among boys’, #7,462 among all names counting both); 1,722 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Emmanuelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmanuelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emmanuelle mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Emmanuelle is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Emmanuel”
/ɛ.ma.nɥɛl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emmanuelle?
#4,801 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmanuelle fell from #3,101 in 2015 to #4,801 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.3 to 17.4 per million.
71 babies in 2012, the peak
Emmanuelle peaked in 2012, when 71 babies were given it (62 girls, #2,812 among girls’ names). The 33 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,801 | 5 | #12,579 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,139 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,676 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,142 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,634 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,107 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,468 | 7 | #10,048 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,021 | 6 | #11,177 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,358 | 5 | #12,851 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,147 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,101 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,789 | 8 | #9,018 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,088 | 8 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,812 | 9 | #8,354 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,021 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,428 | 11 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,040 | 9 | #8,507 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,388 | 15 | #5,851 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,576 | 9 | #8,390 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,981 | 12 | #6,586 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,211 | 9 | #7,823 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,744 | 15 | #5,324 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,049 | 9 | #7,422 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,670 | 13 | #5,494 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,647 | 8 | #7,753 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,006 | 8 | #7,653 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,334 | 16 | #4,404 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,540 | 10 | #5,959 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,841 | 12 | #5,046 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,639 | 11 | #5,291 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,563 | 10 | #5,618 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,568 | 6 | #8,078 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,046 | 6 | #7,934 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,100 | 9 | #5,777 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,239 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,531 | 10 | #5,105 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,914 | 5 | #8,277 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,898 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,448 | 8 | #5,097 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,745 | 5 | #7,047 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,782 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,298 | 5 | #6,619 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,359 | 5 | #6,553 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,046 | 6 | #5,867 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,437 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,853 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,657 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,861 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,767 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,525 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,292 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Emmanuelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,722 Americans recorded as Emmanuelle, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emmanuelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmanuelle, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,722 Americans ever recorded as Emmanuelle. The median Emmanuelle alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,915 people named Emmanuelle (1,633 women and girls, 282 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,492 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 35 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 622 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Emmanuelle born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,245 | 1.0× |
Where Emmanuelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emmanuelle is most over-represented in New York: since 1975 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Emmanuelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,636 babies since 1880, Emmanuelle is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 131 babies (25%), the second most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmanuelle | 1,722 | 33 | 2012 |
| Emmanuella | 1,438 | 54 | 2017 |
| Emmanuela | 718 | 17 | 2015 |
| Emanuelle | 399 | 8 | 2007 |
| Emanuella | 262 | 9 | 2011 |
| Emanuelly | 97 | 10 | 2022 |
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 Emmanuelle
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 Emmanuelle and names like it
- Compare Emmanuelle and EmmanuellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmanuelle peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmanuelle since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Emmanuelle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Emmanuelle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmanuelle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.