Emanuela

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●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Emanuela is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name50K records spelled Emanuela10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Italy, Netherlands

  Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

  Also written Emanuëla

• Croatian given name8.2K records spelled Emanuela20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Italy, North Macedonia

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Russian

  Also written Емануела, Эмануэла, Эмануела, Emanuelä

• Albanian given name7.7K records spelled Emanuela2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States

  Also written Émanuela

• Romanian given name2.5K records spelled Emanuela2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Emanuéla

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Emanuela is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Féminin d’Emmanuel, hébreu ‘Immānū’ēl, « Dieu avec nous ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Forme féminine d’Emmanuel; d’origine chaldéenne et druidique, «la force divine nous est intimement associée».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Yahweh è con noi

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 58 years between 1918–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Emanuela Rossib. 1959ITItalian actress
• Emanuela Pacottob. 1965ITItalian actress
• Emanuela Pierantozzib. 1968ITItalian judoka
• Emanuela Orlandib. 1968VAItalian missing person (since 1983)
• Emanuela Zardob. 1970CHSwiss tennis player
• Emanuela Fanellib. 1986ITItalian actress (born 1986)
• Emanuela de Paulab. 1989BRBrazilian model
• Emanuela Di Crostab. 1991ITItalian actor
• Emanuela Postacchinib. 1991ITItalian actress
• Emaab. 1992ROnot in their usual nameRomanian singer and songwriter

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 432 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Emanuela?

We estimate roughly 41 thousand people bear Emanuela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Emanuela have the most bearers?

We estimate about 33 thousand people bear Emanuela in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled emanuela.

Where is Emanuela most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Emanuela is densest in Albania — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Emanuela compared with other names?

In Brazil, Emanuela is the 999th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Emanuela a male or female name?

Emanuela is a female 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.

What does the name Emanuela mean?

Recorded meaning: feminine form of Emmanuel, from Hebrew 'God is with us'