Lemanuel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lemanuel has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1967, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Lemanuel, 1989
1 in 768,000
Lemanuel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lemanuel?
Lemanuel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1989
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,842,268 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 400,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1989
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,653 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lemanuel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lemanuel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lemanuels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lemanuel was born before 1974 — so the typical Lemanuel is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 42.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Lemanuel 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1967 (6)
- Years since peak
- 58
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Lemanuel
Lemanuel is not the most common spelling — Manuel is, with 53.8% against Lemanuel's <0.01%.
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.
Lemanuel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lemanuel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lemanuel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.