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Manuel

Pronounced /mɑnˈwɛl/

Rank in 2024
#351
Born in 2024
954
Peak year
2005 · #153
Origin
Spanish

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 954 boys were named Manuel, about 1 in every 1,798.
  • It peaked in 2005 with 2,665 babies, ranked #153.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 190,712 boys have been named Manuel since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Manuel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.3
    Greatest
  2. 1.1
    Silent
  3. 0.8
    Boomers
  4. 1.0
    Gen X
  5. 1.2
    Millennials
  6. 1.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.7
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 22,339 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Silent: 23,385 babies, 1.13 per 1,000. Boomers: 30,931 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Gen X: 27,485 babies, 1.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 35,226 babies, 1.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 35,194 babies, 1.12 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 14,224 babies, 0.65 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Manuel, short for Emanuel.

  • A male given name from Spanish.
Origin
Spanish
Say it
/mɑnˈwɛl/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Manuel, CC BY-SA 4.0.