Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Amanuel isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amanuel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 654
- 654 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 40 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #6,164 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −38%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,164 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 38.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 40 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,601 as a first name in 2020; 564 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amanuel’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Amanuel has a conventional equivalent in the German form Immanuel.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amanuel
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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