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Immanuel

#1,207 in 2025Boys' name

God is with us

Immanuel has been given to 6,146 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #1,207 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 239 recorded.

Babies named Immanuel, 2025

1 in 19,700

Immanuel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Immanuel: meaning, origin, and history

God is with us

Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew

What Immanuel means

Immanuel means “God is with us”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Immanuel is used in English, Danish, Faroese, Finnish, German, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish. Its origins include Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew.

Immanuel comes through Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmanuel and Emanuel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Immanuel is pronounced /ɪˈmænjuəl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,146 boys were recorded with the name Immanuel between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 239 in 2015; its best national rank was #892 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,131 in 2020 to #1,207 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #906 in 2015 to #1,207 in 2025.

How common is Immanuel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,700
168 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,207
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,679 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Immanuel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 13,679 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Immanuel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Immanuels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Immanuel was born before 2009 — so the typical Immanuel is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,126
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (2,028).

Is Immanuel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−76
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−301
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.3%
Peak was 2015 (239)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#892
2001

Spellings of Immanuel

Immanuel is not the most common spelling — Manuel is, with 55.5% against Immanuel's 1.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Immanuel is used

Across 2016–2025, Immanuel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 9,850 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

218 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 5,556
  2. 2Georgia1 in 5,556
  3. 3Delaware1 in 6,250
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 6,667
  5. 5New York1 in 7,692
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 7,692
  7. 7Virginia1 in 7,692
  8. 8Texas1 in 8,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Immanuel around the world

Where Immanuel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2011–2022
    #6,545
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Immanuel

People whose public names include Immanuel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Immanuel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Immanuel. Linked forms have their own page here.

ManuelEmanuelEmanueleEmmanuelEmánuelEmmanouil

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Immanuel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,207
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 76
Best rank ever
#892
2001
Peak year
2015
239 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,146
Count in 2025
168

Names similar to Immanuel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShmuelMarquelSammuelEnmanuelLemuelEmmanuelEmanuelAmanuelJosemanuelBenuelJuanmanuelKemuelMiquelJosemiguelReuelJanuelRuelAmmanuelShemuelNahuelJuelImanuelMiguelManuel

Names with a curve like Immanuel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Immanuel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JordySladeAleksanderJovanniTajSamiEamonZavierEanJacobiMenachemIsai

Sibling names for Immanuel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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