Emmanuel

Where Emmanuel comes from

Variant of Immanuel.
— Wiktionary's entry for Emmanuel
  • Hebrew
  • 4 syllables
Emmanuel through the years
  1. 1748
    Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès born
    French priest and statesman
  2. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,121 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1984
    Emmanuel Adebayor born
    Togolese soccer player
  4. 2009
    Peak, #144
    2,738 babies named Emmanuel, its best rank.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Emmanuel Adebayor · Togolese soccer player, born 1984
  • Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès · French priest and statesman, 1748–1836
  • Emmanuel Levinas · Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher, 1906–1995
  • Emmanuel Petit · French footballer, born 1970
  • Emmanuel Eboué · Ivorian footballer, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.