Emmanuelle
Feminine · “God is with us”
Emmanuelle is given to both — 1,432 girls and 290 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Emmanuelle is the French feminine of Emmanuel, and the name is a whole sentence in Hebrew: God is with us. It comes from a single line of Isaiah that the Gospel of Matthew quotes, and it has been given in French-speaking countries for centuries with the doubled l and the silent ending intact.
How old is the name Emmanuelle?
Emmanuelle first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Emmanuelle alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,400 people named Emmanuelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emmanuelle most popular?
Emmanuelle peaked in 1998, reaching #2530 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 2,228 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Immanu El to Emmanuelle
The story of Emmanuelle
The name is a prophecy before it is a name. Isaiah gives it to a child whose birth is offered as a sign, and Matthew's Gospel quotes the line, which fixed the name permanently in Christian use. Greek wrote it Emmanouel and Latin Emmanuel, and the Romance languages built feminines from it in the ordinary way: Emmanuelle in French, Manuela and Emanuela in Spanish and Italian. It has been steady in France and in French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean, and it reached American records mostly from those directions rather than through English.
Meaning
God is with us
Hebrew Immanu El: immanu, with us, and El, God. It is a sentence rather than a description, spoken in Isaiah as the name of a promised child.
How the name formed
- Immanu El
- Emmanouel
- Emmanuel
- Emmanuelle
Related forms: Manuela · Emanuela · Emanuela · עמנואל · Emanuela
Pronouncing Emmanuelle
eh-man-yoo-EL
Four syllables with the stress at the end in French, and no sound after the final e. English speakers often add a light -uh at the end; nobody is troubled by it.
Nicknames for Emmanuelle
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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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 201262 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2530reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- −20.0%28 in 2025, from 35
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.
Emmanuelle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Manuela in Spanish — related form
- Emanuela in Italian — same name
- Emanuela in Portuguese — same name
- עמנואל in Hebrew — transliteration
- Emanuela in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Florida.
Emmanuelles among us
people named Emmanuelle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Emmanuelle
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Emmanuelle
- #4758
- Emmanuelle on the 2025 chart
- #924
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Emmanuelle went to 28 girls in 2025, but Emanuelle is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 36, which makes it the 924th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,834 places above the chart.
- Emmanuelle28
- Emanuelle8
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 57,402 for Emmanuelle 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
The Marlisa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emmanuelle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marlisa climbed just as high around 1964, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marlisa's path sketches the road Emmanuelle is walking now.
Emmanuelle 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
Where Emmanuelle is headed
Emmanuelle should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Emmanuelle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emmanuelle in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a complete sentence and one of the most quoted in either testament.
- It carries short forms of very different registers, from Manu to Emma.
- It works in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese households with only small changes.
- It is long for American forms and will be clipped to Emma without anyone asking.
- Emmanuelle, Emanuela and Emmanuella all circulate, so spellings across a family may differ.
- The name is also the title of a French film series of the nineteen-seventies, which older readers may recall.
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Frequently asked
- How many Emmanuelles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Emmanuelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Emmanuelle?
- Emmanuelle is the most-used spelling in US records — 28 of the 36 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Emanuelle.
- How popular is the name Emmanuelle in 2025?
- Emmanuelle ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emmanuelle?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Emmanuelle — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emmanuelle with classmates?
- Emmanuelle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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