Manuella
Feminine · “God with us”
Emmanuel is a sentence: immanu El, God with us. Clipping it to Manuel keeps the God and drops the us, which is the opposite of what usually happens when a Hebrew name is shortened, and it leaves a name that means, on its own, very little.
How old is the name Manuella?
Manuella first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Manuella alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 500 people named Manuella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Manuella most popular?
Manuella peaked in 1917, reaching #2316 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 4,230 places below that high. See the whole 1917 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Immanuel to Manuella
The story of Manuella
Emmanuel entered European naming through the Gospel of Matthew and was used most heavily in the Iberian peninsula and Greece; Portuguese and Spanish shortened it to Manuel, and it became one of the most-given men's names in both countries and across Latin America. The feminine Manuela followed. The doubled l is the interesting part of this spelling: Spanish uses ll for a quite different sound, so writing Manuella in Spanish would change the pronunciation entirely, and the form is therefore not a Spanish variant but an English or French one applied to a Spanish name. Manuella's best year in United States records is 1917.
Meaning
God with us
Hebrew Immanuel combines immanu, with us, and El, God, from the prophecy in Isaiah quoted in Matthew. Manuel is the shortened Iberian form, which loses the front of the word; Manuela is its feminine. The doubled l of this spelling is neither Spanish nor Portuguese, both of which write Manuela, and appears to be a French- or Italian-facing addition.
How the name formed
- Immanuel
- Emmanuel
- Manuel
- Manuella
Related forms: Manuela · Manuela · Emanuela · Manuela · Emmanuelle
Pronouncing Manuella
man-WEL-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. In Spanish the doubled l would be a y sound, giving man-WEY-ah, which is why Spanish speakers find this spelling odd.
Nicknames for Manuella
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
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 202222 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2316reached in 1917
- Change vs 2024
- −10.5%17 in 2025, from 19
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.
Manuella in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Manuela in Spanish — spelling variant
- Manuela in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Emanuela in Italian — same name
- Manuela in German — same name
- Emmanuelle in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Massachusetts, Florida.
Manuellas among us
people named Manuella are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Manuella
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Manuella
- #6546
- Manuella on the 2025 chart
- #875
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Manuella went to 17 girls in 2025, but Manuela is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 85, which makes it the 875th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,671 places above the chart.
- Manuela68
- Manuella17
About 1 girl in 18,909 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Manuella 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
Manuella 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
Manuella beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Manuella in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Hebrew meaning that is a complete sentence.
- Manu, Nela and Ella are three short forms in three different registers.
- Recognized across Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Latin America.
- Manuela is the correct Spanish and Portuguese spelling.
- In Spanish the doubled l changes the sound entirely.
- It reads as an early-twentieth-century name in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Manuellas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Manuella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Manuella?
- Manuella is one of 2 recorded spellings. Manuela is the more common one — 68 births in 2025 against 17 for Manuella.
- How popular is the name Manuella in 2025?
- Manuella ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Manuella?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Manuella — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Manuella with classmates?
- Manuella will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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