Emmanuel
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #179 for boys in 2025, 2,035 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 2,738 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 91,079since 1898
Emmanuel over time
Rank among boys' names. Emmanuel has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #179 | 2,035 | |
| 2024 | — | #181 | 2,054 | |
| 2023 | — | #173 | 2,107 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #169 | 2,220 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #191 | 1,985 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #151 | 2,462 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #164 | 2,423 |
| 2018 | — | #159 | 2,424 | |
| 2017 | — | #155 | 2,520 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #158 | 2,571 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #151 | 2,749 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #165 | 2,568 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #171 | 2,401 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | #165 | 2,351 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #147 | 2,676 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #153 | 2,554 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #144 | 2,738 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #145 | 2,862 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #154 | 2,711 |
| 2006 | — | #166 | 2,487 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #159 | 2,575 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #174 | 2,347 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #182 | 2,131 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #184 | 2,032 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #198 | 1,856 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #196 | 1,800 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #216 | 1,583 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #213 | 1,504 |
| 1997 | — | #210 | 1,474 | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #211 | 1,473 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #224 | 1,332 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #228 | 1,286 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #217 | 1,383 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #224 | 1,359 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #219 | 1,384 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #218 | 1,398 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | #212 | 1,337 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | #207 | 1,280 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #192 | 1,402 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #205 | 1,186 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | #210 | 1,144 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #215 | 1,065 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #283 | 722 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #317 | 617 |
| 1981 | — | #314 | 606 | |
| 1980 | — | #398 | 412 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #449 | 323 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #451 | 314 |
| 1977 | — | #515 | 255 | |
| 1976 | — | #566 | 205 | |
| 1975 | — | #541 | 221 | |
| 1974 | — | #585 | 185 | |
| 1973 | — | #578 | 188 | |
| 1972 | — | #609 | 168 | |
| 1971 | — | #652 | 158 | |
| 1970 | — | #703 | 140 | |
| 1969 | — | #689 | 131 | |
| 1968 | — | #693 | 119 | |
| 1967 | — | #701 | 112 | |
| 1966 | — | #706 | 110 | |
| 1965 | — | #646 | 133 | |
| 1964 | — | #699 | 122 | |
| 1963 | — | #682 | 129 | |
| 1962 | — | #683 | 129 | |
| 1961 | — | #681 | 127 | |
| 1960 | — | #745 | 107 | |
| 1959 | — | #742 | 106 | |
| 1958 | — | #824 | 83 | |
| 1957 | — | #831 | 83 | |
| 1956 | — | #792 | 88 | |
| 1955 | — | #867 | 72 | |
| 1954 | — | #742 | 93 | |
| 1953 | — | #868 | 68 | |
| 1952 | — | #845 | 68 | |
| 1951 | — | #838 | 70 | |
| 1950 | — | #918 | 56 | |
| 1949 | — | #872 | 62 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,001 | 49 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,064 | 46 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,145 | 37 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,180 | 31 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,120 | 35 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,187 | 33 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,074 | 40 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,169 | 32 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,275 | 28 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,168 | 31 | |
| 1938 | — | #939 | 45 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,233 | 29 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,243 | 28 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,194 | 31 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,150 | 33 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,310 | 26 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,387 | 25 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,015 | 43 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,080 | 41 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,111 | 39 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,293 | 31 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,468 | 26 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,331 | 30 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,022 | 45 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,287 | 32 | |
| 1923 | — | #992 | 49 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,158 | 38 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,360 | 30 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,273 | 32 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,247 | 32 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,231 | 32 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,175 | 33 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,240 | 29 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,124 | 33 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,153 | 25 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,441 | 14 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,353 | 13 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,290 | 8 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,045 | 10 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | #946 | 9 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | #1,310 | 5 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | #1,121 | 5 | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Emmanuel! It came in at #1,121, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1898–1907, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Emmanuel
- 2 spots since 2024 (#181 → #179)
- 28 spots since 2020 (#151 → #179)
- 28 spots since 2015 (#151 → #179)
- Biggest jump: 294 spots in 1938 (#1,233 → #939)
- Biggest drop: 295 spots in 1924 (#992 → #1,287)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 2009 at #144 (2,738 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 80 yrs · run 1949–2025
- Highest: 1 in 697 boys born in 2015 were named Emmanuel (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 839 boys born in 2025 (0.12%)
- Its best rank, #144 in 2009, was only 1 in 724 (0.14%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.7% of all boys named Emmanuel (25,237) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,121 (1898) | #1,121 |
| 1900s | 19 | #946 (1908) | #1,129 |
| 1910s | 229 | #1,045 (1910) | #1,230 |
| 1920s | 352 | #992 (1923) | #1,230 |
| 1930s | 332 | #939 (1938) | #1,172 |
| 1940s | 393 | #872 (1949) | #1,109 |
| 1950s | 787 | #742 (1959) | #827 |
| 1960s | 1,219 | #646 (1965) | #693 |
| 1970s | 2,157 | #449 (1979) | #565 |
| 1980s | 9,771 | #192 (1987) | #255 |
| 1990s | 14,176 | #210 (1997) | #218 |
| 2000s | 23,539 | #144 (2009) | #170 |
| 2010s | 25,237 | #147 (2011) | #159 |
| 2020s | 12,863 | #151 (2020) | #174 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Emmanuel in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 297,516 of them was named Emmanuel, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,006Zyliah7
- #13,006Zymira7
- #13,006Zyniyah7
- #14,482Emmanuel6
- #14,482Aafia6
- #14,482Aailyah6
- #14,482Aala6
- #16,419Aabriella5
- #16,419Aada5
- #16,419Aailiyah5
Tied with 1,936 names at #14,482; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 697 of them was named Emmanuel, which outranked 98.9% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.