Immanuel
Immanuel was given to 168 boys in 2025, #1,207 among boys’ names; 6,146 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,010 Americans named Immanuel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Immanuel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Immanuel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Immanuel is “a male given name from Hebrew: alternative form of Emmanuel.” Its etymology gives the sense “God is with us” (literally).
From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).
/ɪˈmænjuəl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Immanuel?
#1,207 among boys’ names, 2025
Immanuel fell from #906 in 2015 to #1,207 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.12 to 0.10 per 1,000.
239 babies in 2015, the peak
Immanuel peaked in 2015, when 239 boys were given it, #906 among boys’ names. The 168 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,207 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 168 | #1,208 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 180 | #1,158 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 160 | #1,231 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 160 | #1,210 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 173 | #1,131 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 204 | #1,020 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 214 | #974 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 200 | #1,012 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 214 | #965 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 239 | #906 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 203 | #1,009 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 200 | #991 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 208 | #969 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 169 | #1,098 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,088 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 197 | #999 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 228 | #909 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 204 | #968 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 185 | #998 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 191 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 170 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,136 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 161 | #978 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 177 | #892 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 135 | #1,060 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,049 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,064 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,148 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,200 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,367 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 64 | #1,477 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,360 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 52 | #1,660 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 49 | #1,677 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 42 | #1,570 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 49 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 28 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,231 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,881 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,472 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,259 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Immanuel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Immanuel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Immanuel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Immanuel, and how old are they?
6,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,146 Americans ever recorded as Immanuel. The median Immanuel alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,225 people named Immanuel (22 women and girls, 4,203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,084 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 744 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,470 |
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 Immanuel born?
The states with the most babies named Immanuel are Texas, California and Florida, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,146 | 0.9× |
| California | 13 | #1,388 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,086 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 12 | #603 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #760 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,028 | 1.5× |
| New York | 7 | #1,478 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,072 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,075 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #966 | 0.6× |
Where Immanuel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Immanuel is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1917 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 boys’ 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 Immanuel 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 97,939 babies since 1880, Immanuel is the second most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 168 of their 2,203 babies (7.6%), again the second 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 Immanuel
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 Immanuel and names like it
- Compare Immanuel and EmmanuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sImmanuel peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Immanuel since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Immanuel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Immanuel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.