Emanuela
A feminine form of the Hebrew name Emanuel, carrying the sense "god is with us". It sits just inside Poland's top 1,000, yet meeting one is rare: it's given less often now than a generation ago.
Emanuela Pronunciation
Emanuela is pronounced e-mah-noo-E-lah (/ɛmanuˈɛla/).
What Emanuela means
Where Emanuela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Emanuela begins in the Hebrew Immanuel, built from immanu, 'with us,' and El, 'God.' The phrase belongs to the Book of Isaiah, where a promised child stands as a sign, and it returns in the Gospel of Matthew. The name states a full sentence. God is with us.
Emanuela is the feminine form. Beside it stand the variants Emanuel and the Italian Emanuele, which a boy carries instead. On a Polish class register the name reads as a Hebrew declaration in Polish spelling, seated among saints from Rome and Greece.
Its short meaning has stayed close to that first grammar, since the word was a statement of presence before it named anyone. Polish calendars mark her imieniny on the twenty-sixth of March. A girl called Emanuela wears that old assurance as bóg z nami.
When Emanuela celebrates name day
Emanuela appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Emanuela
1 in 21268 women in Poland is named Emanuela. 1,060 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #935 among female names.
Emanuela's popularity over time
5 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #921 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2010.
Where Emanuela is most popular
Emanuela is most popular in West Pomeranian, 294% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+224%) and Lower Silesian (+217%).
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+294%
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Lublin2 girls born+224%
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Lower Silesian3 girls born+217%
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Lesser Poland4 girls born+193%
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Silesian2 girls born+46%
Emanuela as a middle name
Emanuela is a first name for 1,060 women in Poland and a middle name for another 677, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 283rd, between Berta (685) and Wirginia (675).
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#281 Ines689
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#282 Berta685
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#283 Emanuela677
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#284 Wirginia675
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#285 Jane667