Emanuela
Feminine · “Hebrew immanu el”
Immanuel is a sign, not a description. Isaiah gives it to a king as a piece of political theater: a child will be born, he will be called God-with-us, and before he can tell right from wrong the two kingdoms you are afraid of will be gone. The name is the message, and the prophet used his own children the same way.
How old is the name Emanuela?
Emanuela first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Emanuela alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 600 people named Emanuela are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emanuela most popular?
Emanuela peaked in 1918, reaching #3244 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 5,118 places below that high. See the whole 1918 chart.
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Where it comes from
From immanu el to Emanuela
The story of Emanuela
Isaiah names children as messages, and he does it more than once. His first son is Shear-Jashub, a remnant shall return, and the boy is brought along to a confrontation with the king so that the name is present in the room. His second is Maher-shalal-hash-baz, swift is the spoil, quick is the plunder, which the prophet is told to write on a large tablet before the child is conceived. Immanuel belongs to the same sequence, given in the same chapter to the same king in the same crisis. What all three have in common is that the name does the arguing: the prophet says something by naming, and the child carries the statement around. That is a use of naming English has no equivalent for. The Christian reading of the Isaiah passage as a prophecy of a distant birth is a later interpretation of a text with an immediate political context.
Meaning
Hebrew immanu el, God with us
From Hebrew immanu, with us, and el, God. The name appears in Isaiah 7:14 as a sign given to King Ahaz of Judah, and is quoted in Matthew 1:23. Emanuela is the Italian and Portuguese feminine, formed from Emanuele with a Latin -a. The single m of the Italian spelling is standard there and differs from the Hebrew doubling. It peaks in the American data in 1918.
How the name formed
- immanu el
- Emmanuel
- Emanuela
Related forms: Emanuela · Emanuela · Manuela
Pronouncing Emanuela
eh-mah-noo-EH-lah
Five syllables, stress on the fourth. English speakers usually say ih-man-yoo-EL-ah with four. The Spanish Manuela drops the first syllable entirely, which is the commonest form in the Americas.
Nicknames for Emanuela
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1918
- Most girls named
- 201522 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3244reached in 1918
- Change vs 2024
- −29.4%12 in 2025, from 17
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Emanuela in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emanuela in Italian — same name
- Emanuela in Portuguese — same name
- Manuela in Spanish — same name
Emanuelas among us
people named Emanuela are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Emanuela
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emanuela
- #8362
- Emanuela on the 2025 chart
- #868
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emanuela went to 12 girls in 2025, but Emmanuella, Emmanuela and Emanuella are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 92, which makes it the 868th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,494 places above the chart.
- Emmanuella54
- Emmanuela17
- Emanuela12
- Emanuella9
About 1 girl in 17,470 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 133,939 for Emanuela itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Emanuela sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Emanuela beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emanuela in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew meaning is settled and central to two traditions.
- Manu and Ela give short forms in different registers.
- It is current across Italian, Portuguese and Romanian.
- Five syllables is long for American use.
- Manuela is far more common in Spanish-speaking families.
- The single m is Italian and looks like an error to English readers.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emanuelas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Emanuela are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emanuela?
- Emanuela is one of 4 recorded spellings. Emmanuella is the more common one — 54 births in 2025 against 12 for Emanuela.
- How popular is the name Emanuela in 2025?
- Emanuela ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emanuela?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Emanuela — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emanuela with classmates?
- Emanuela will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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