Meaning not yet researched.
Immanuel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 168 in 2025. Its best rank was #893 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #893 in 2001; #1,207 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Immanuel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,207 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #893.
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Immanuel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 168 boys in 2025. Peak: #893 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 239 (2015).
In 2025, 168 US boys were named Immanuel, making it the 1,207th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1 place from #1,208 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 168 boys named Immanuel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #893, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 239, in 2015. For comparison, it was #906 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Immanuel in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 6,146 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,028 babies named Immanuel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,841 US boys were named Immanuel; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 214. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,167 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Immanuel ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #603 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Manuel (192,742 babies since 1880), Emmanuel (91,451 babies since 1880), Emanuel (54,855 babies since 1880) and Manolo (1,524 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Immanol are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Emmanuel and Manuel.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Immanol (14).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 12 | #603 | #639 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #730 | #763 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #760 | #883 |
| Maryland | 5 | #849 | #508 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #966 | #678 |
| Arizona | 5 | #972 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,006 | #839 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,028 | #754 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,072 | #862 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,075 | #1,042 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,086 | #755 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,146 | #688 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,358 | #1,279 |
| California | 13 | #1,388 | #831 |
| New York | 7 | #1,478 | #873 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 168 | #1,207 |
| 2024 | — | — | 168 | #1,208 |
| 2023 | — | — | 180 | #1,158 |
| 2022 | — | — | 160 | #1,231 |
| 2021 | — | — | 160 | #1,210 |
| 2020 | — | — | 173 | #1,131 |
| 2019 | — | — | 204 | #1,020 |
| 2018 | — | — | 214 | #974 |
| 2017 | — | — | 200 | #1,012 |
| 2016 | — | — | 214 | #965 |
| 2015 | — | — | 239 | #906 |
| 2014 | — | — | 203 | #1,009 |
| 2013 | — | — | 200 | #991 |
| 2012 | — | — | 208 | #969 |
| 2011 | — | — | 169 | #1,098 |
| 2010 | — | — | 177 | #1,088 |
| 2009 | — | — | 197 | #999 |
| 2008 | — | — | 228 | #909 |
| 2007 | — | — | 204 | #968 |
| 2006 | — | — | 185 | #998 |
| 2005 | — | — | 191 | #922 |
| 2004 | — | — | 170 | #981 |
| 2003 | — | — | 133 | #1,137 |
| 2002 | — | — | 161 | #979 |
| 2001 | — | — | 177 | #893 |
| 2000 | — | — | 135 | #1,062 |
| 1999 | — | — | 131 | #1,051 |
| 1998 | — | — | 124 | #1,067 |
| 1997 | — | — | 107 | #1,151 |
| 1996 | — | — | 94 | #1,202 |
| 1995 | — | — | 74 | #1,372 |
| 1994 | — | — | 64 | #1,482 |
| 1993 | — | — | 71 | #1,365 |
| 1992 | — | — | 52 | #1,665 |
| 1991 | — | — | 49 | #1,683 |
| 1990 | — | — | 49 | #1,672 |
| 1989 | — | — | 40 | #1,873 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,862 |
| 1987 | — | — | 43 | #1,622 |
| 1986 | — | — | 42 | #1,571 |
| 1985 | — | — | 49 | #1,398 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,952 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,114 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,912 |
| 1981 | — | — | 35 | #1,676 |
| 1980 | — | — | 28 | #1,981 |
| 1979 | — | — | 31 | #1,804 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,844 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,710 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,204 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,579 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,873 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,254 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,233 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,883 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,455 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,423 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,218 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,474 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,611 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,463 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,260 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).