Manoel
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manoel is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Immanuel (God is with us).
- BRBrazil1 in 442◐
- ESSpain1 in 331K
- USUnited States1 in 733K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈479K ●
- #226 ●
- Sources
- 193 ●
- 1 in 442 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
917K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
Immanuel (God is with us)
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #31 | 478,590 | 911K rec. | 1 in 442 | 592K | Manoel | 193 |
| PT Portugal | #835 | 587 | 233 rec. | — | listed | Manoel | 51 |
| US United States | — | 454 | 3K rec. | 1 in 733K | 454 | Manoel | 134 |
| AR Argentina | — | 416 | 317 rec. | — | 2 | Manoel | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 244 | 170 rec. | — | 1 | Manoel | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 221 | 167 rec. | — | — | Manoel | 36 |
| PE Peru | — | 217 | 202 rec. | — | — | Manoel | 16 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 196 | 121 rec. | — | — | Manoel | 10 |
| MX Mexico | — | 176 | 142 rec. | — | — | Manoel | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 151 | 452 rec. | 1 in 331K | 151 | Manoel | 45 |
| IN India | — | 116 | 87 rec. | — | — | Manoel | 13 |
| AO Angola | #538 | 104 | 30 rec. | — | — | Manoel | 7 |
Roughly 479K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 442). 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●
- Portuguese9.9M95%
- English481K5%
- French4.1K1%
- ptbr3.1K1%
- Spanish2.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 9,867,853 | 95% |
| English | 481,465 | 5% |
| French | 4,090 | 1% |
| ptbr | 3,147 | 1% |
| Spanish | 2,664 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Manoel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Variante d’Emmanuel; d’origine chaldéenne et druidique, «la force divine nous est intimement associée».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Portuguese form of EMMANUEL . The Portuguese king Manoel I (1469–1521; reigned 1495–1521) presided over a glittering period in Portuguese history, at a time when wealth was flowing in from Portugal's new conquests in both the East Indies and South America.
as a word
In Galician, a male given name, equivalent to English Emmanuel or Manuel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1940 | 26,654 |
| 1950 | 90,014 |
| 1960 | 189,859 |
| 1970 | 295,275 |
| 1980 | 373,059 |
| 1990 | 422,460 |
| 2000 | 448,230 |
| 2010 | 463,851 |
| 2020 | 474,422 |
| 2022 | 478,590 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Deodoro da Fonsecab. 1827BRnot in their usual namePresident of Brazil (1827-1892)
- Manuel L. Quezonb. 1878PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
- Manuel Azañab. 1880ESnot in their usual nameprime minister of Spain, president of Spain (1880-1940)
- Manuel II of Portugalb. 1889PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1889–1932)
- Manuel Ávila Camachob. 1897MXnot in their usual name52th President of Mexico
- Manuel Antonio Noriega Morenob. 1934PAnot in their usual namePanamanian head of state (1934-2017)
- António Guterresb. 1949PTnot in their usual nameSecretary-General of the United Nations since 2017
- Raymond Domenechb. 1952FRnot in their usual nameFrench football manager (born 1952)
- Lopez Obradorb. 1953MXnot in their usual nameMexican politician. President of Mexico from 2018 to 2024
- Manuel Vallsb. 1962FRnot in their usual nameFrench and Spanish politician
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 592K | #51 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 591K | #21 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 479K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 477K | #48 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 474K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 464K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 448K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 422K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 373K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 295K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 190K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 105K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Manoel?
- We estimate roughly 479 thousand people bear Manoel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Manoel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 479 thousand people bear Manoel in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled manoel.
- Where is Manoel most common?
- Manoel is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 442 people carrying it.
- How common is Manoel compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Manoel is the 31st most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Manoel a male or female name?
- Manoel 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.
- What does the name Manoel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Immanuel (God is with us)
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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, “Manoel” — the 31st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.