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Emmanuel

From Hebrew, it carries the sense "god is with us". Still rare in Poland and given only to boys, but the count is climbing: more arrived last year than in most years before it.

Emmanuel Pronunciation

Emmanuel is pronounced em-mah-NOO-el (/ɛmmaˈnuɛl/).

Related names
Emanuel Emanuela
Alive in 2025
707
Newborns 2025
13
National rank
#1109

What Emmanuel means

Where Emmanuel comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Emmanuel comes from Hebrew, from the words Immanu'el, which mean "God is with us." The prophet Isaiah set it down first, in a verse promising a child by that name (Isaiah 7:14). The Gospel of Matthew later quoted the same line, and the name moved out across Christian Europe from there.

France took to it warmly. The variant Emanuel travels beside it on official forms, and a daughter can carry the feminine Emanuela. On a Polish class register the name reads formal, a little grand, sitting among the Jakubs and Piotrs.

The sense "God is with us" never faded into decoration. It stayed the plain reading of the name, close to the Hebrew it grew from. Whoever answers to Emmanuel answers, in effect, to a short sentence: bóg z nami.

How many people are named Emmanuel

1 in 30408 men in Poland is named Emmanuel. 707 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1109 among male names.

People with the name Emmanuel 2019 → 2025
707 +389 since 2019
2020 349 +31
2021 387 +38
2022 452 +65
2023 545 +93
2024 620 +75
2025 707 +87

Emmanuel's popularity over time

13 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #631 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012.

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13 newborns with the name Emmanuel in 2025
national rank #631 that year

Where Emmanuel is most popular

Emmanuel is most popular in Lower Silesian, 150% above the national average (6 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+140%) and Silesian (+73%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Pomeranian, 42% and 11% below average respectively.

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Emmanuel as a middle name

Emmanuel is a first name for 707 men in Poland and a middle name for another 422, a 63/37 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 345th, between Radomir (425) and Ludomir (416).

As a first name
707
As a middle name
422
first name 63% middle name 37%
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