girls:
372 births since 1978
#5344 (6th percentile)
boys:
87k births since 1898
#336 (93rd percentile)
overall:
87.3k births since 1898
#743 (90th percentile)
The name Emmanuel is the #743 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 87,326 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 90.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #336 (92.7% percentile) for all time with 86,954 births since 1898. For girls, it ranks #5,344 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 372 births since 1978.
Emmanuel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for boys and 1978 for girls). Birth data for Emmanuel is available in 118 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 39 years for girls). 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.
The name Emmanuel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Emmanuel reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 84.2% percentile (ranked #143) with 1,290 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 1,344 births per million (ranked 83.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Emmanuel ranks #170 for boys (81.4% percentile) with 1,147 births per million, which is 85.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Emmanuel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #809) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emmanuel".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Emmanuel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.6% confident that Emmanuel is pronounced as ih-MA-nyue-ehl, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-MA-nyue-EHL, at 20.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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