Meaning and history
Emmanuel comes from the Hebrew name עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿImmanuʾel), meaning “God is with us,” formed from עִם (ʿim), “with,” and אֵל (ʾel), “God.” It is the foretold name of the Messiah in the Old Testament. In England it has been used since the 16th century in the spellings Emmanuel and Immanuel, though it has never been common there, while it has been more widely used in continental Europe, especially in Spain and Portugal as Manuel and Manoel.
20062006: 2,487 births, rank #166
2007: 2,711 births, rank #154
2008: 2,862 births, rank #145
2009: 2,738 births, rank #144
2010: 2,554 births, rank #153
20112011: 2,676 births, rank #147
2012: 2,351 births, rank #165
2013: 2,401 births, rank #171
2014: 2,568 births, rank #165
2015: 2,749 births, rank #151
20162016: 2,571 births, rank #158
2017: 2,520 births, rank #155
2018: 2,424 births, rank #159
2019: 2,423 births, rank #164
2020: 2,462 births, rank #151
20212021: 1,985 births, rank #191
2022: 2,220 births, rank #169
2023: 2,107 births, rank #173
2024: 2,054 births, rank #181
20252025: 2,035 births, rank #179
Emmanuel rose from #181 to #179 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2008, with 2,862 births.