Amanuel
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amanuel is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ethiopia it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Amharic, written in the Latin script.
- ETEthiopia1 in 1K◐
- SESweden1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 79K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 148 ●
- 1 in 9.0K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
15K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,203 | 7.3K rec. | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Amanuel | 148 |
| ET Ethiopia | #15 | 3,706 | 2.5K rec. | — | 1 | Amanuel | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 975△ | 245 rec. | 1 in 18K | 975 | Amanuel | 16 |
| SE Sweden | #834 | 942 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 11K | 942 | Amanuel | 18 |
| FI Finland | — | 617△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 9K | 1.8K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 448 | 411 rec. | — | listed | Amanuel | 41 |
| DE Germany | — | 422 | 548 rec. | — | 3 | Amanuel | 52 |
| NO Norway | — | 308 | 196 rec. | 1 in 18K | 798 | Amanuel | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | 277 | 245 rec. | — | 4 | Amanuel | 30 |
| AU Australia | — | 215 | 247 rec. | — | 3 | Amanuel | 39 |
| AR Argentina | — | 211 | 192 rec. | — | 2 | Amanuel | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 146 | 170 rec. | — | — | Amanuel | 9 |
Roughly 4.2K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 79K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English6.3K28%
- Amharic3.8K17%
- 2.7K12%
- Spanish1.5K7%
- Arabic1.1K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,319 | 28% |
| Amharic | 3,771 | 17% |
| 2,726 | 12% | |
| Spanish | 1,503 | 7% |
| Arabic | 1,102 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 11 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 21 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 31 |
| 2014 | 31 |
| 2015 | 28 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 22 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2020 | 39 |
| 2021 | 24 |
| 2022 | 19 |
| 2023 | 23 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 14 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 36 years between 1987–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Manny McCarthyb. 1902not in their usual name(1902–1994) axeman
- Amanuel Iyassub. 1981EREritrean association football player
- Amanuel Meselb. 1990EREritrean distance runner
- Amanuel Millionb. 1991ERcyclist
- Amanuel Gebrezgabihierb. 1994EREritrean road cyclist
- Amanuel Tsegayb. 1995EREritrean cyclist
- Amanuel Mengisb. 1995EREritrean cyclist
- Amanuel MellesERCanadian community organizer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 41 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 338 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Amanuel?
- We estimate roughly 7.4 thousand people bear Amanuel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Amanuel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.2 thousand people bear Amanuel in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled amanuel.
- How common is Amanuel compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Amanuel is the 15th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
- Is Amanuel a male or female name?
- Amanuel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amanuel” — the 15th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.