Immanuel

Where Immanuel comes from

From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Immanuel
  • 4 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1895
    Immanuel Velikovsky born
    Russian, Israeli and American author
  2. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,981 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1930
    Immanuel Wallerstein born
    American sociologist and economic historian
  4. 2001
    Peak, #891
    177 babies named Immanuel — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew: alternative form of Emmanuel.
Namesakes
  • Immanuel Wallerstein · American sociologist and economic historian, 1930–2019
  • Immanuel Velikovsky · Russian, Israeli and American author, 1895–1979
  • Immanuel Nobel · Swedish architect, engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1801–1872
  • Immanuel Bekker · German classical scholar and philologist, 1785–1871
  • Immanuel Hermann Fichte · German philosopher, 1796–1879

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.