boys:
472 births since 1963
#4114 (10th percentile)
overall:
472 births since 1963
#7267 (6th percentile)
The name Emmanual is the #7,267 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 472 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,114 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 472 births since 1963.
Emmanual first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (first recorded for boys in 1963). Birth data for Emmanual is available in 41 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Emmanual reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #738) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Emmanual ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 36.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emmanual".
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Our model has identified 22 different pronunciations for the name Emmanual. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 11.8% confident that Emmanual is pronounced as EH-muh-nyue-uhl, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-MA-nyue-ehl, at 9.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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