Enmanuel
Masculine · “God is with us”
Enmanuel is a Spanish-language spelling of Emmanuel, a Hebrew sentence: God is with us. It is a statement rather than a description.
How old is the name Enmanuel?
Enmanuel first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Enmanuel alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,100 people named Enmanuel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Enmanuel most popular?
Enmanuel peaked in 1983, reaching #2272 nationally. Today it ranks #3848, 1,576 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Immanuel to Enmanuel
The story of Enmanuel
Isaiah gives the name as a sign to a king in the eighth century BC; Matthew quotes the passage and glosses it, which fixed the name in Christian use. Spanish gives Manuel as the everyday form and Emanuel or Enmanuel as the full one, the n before the m being a Spanish spelling habit. It appears in American records with families from the Dominican Republic and Central America in particular.
Meaning
God is with us
From Hebrew immanu, with us, and el, God; the name appears in Isaiah as a sign and is quoted in Matthew, which supplies the translation directly in the text — a rare case of a Gospel explaining a Hebrew name.
How the name formed
- Immanuel
- Emmanuel
- Enmanuel
Related forms: Emanuel · Immanuel · Manuel
Pronouncing Enmanuel
en-man-WEL
Three syllables with the stress at the end. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Enmanuel
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
- 1979
- Most boys named
- 200450 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2272reached in 1983
- Change vs 2024
- +3.7%28 in 2025, from 27
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.
Enmanuel in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Emanuel in Spanish — spelling variant
- Immanuel in Hebrew — same name
- Manuel in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Florida, New Jersey.
Enmanuels among us
people named Enmanuel are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was named Enmanuel
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ulric test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Enmanuel's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ulric climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ulric's path sketches the road Enmanuel is walking now.
Enmanuel 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 Enmanuel is headed
Enmanuel 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.
Enmanuel beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Enmanuel in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence and is glossed in the text itself.
- Manny and Manu are both ready short forms in two languages.
- Very widely used across the Spanish-speaking world.
- Emmanuel is the standard English spelling and will be written for him.
- Eight letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
- Enmanuel, Emanuel and Emmanuel are all in use and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Enmanuels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Enmanuel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Enmanuel in 2025?
- Enmanuel ranks #3848 among US boy names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Enmanuel?
- About 1 in every 61,003 US boys born in 2025 was named Enmanuel — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Enmanuel with classmates?
- Enmanuel will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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