The name Manuel is the Spanish form of Emmanuel, which is of Hebrew origin and is composed of the words ‘im’ and ‘el’. Translated, it means something like ‘God be with us’.
Manuel is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Manuel isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Manuel ranks 274. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Manuel. In the entire USA, approximately 181,639 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Manuel. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
The name Manuel is the Spanish form of Emmanuel, which is of Hebrew origin and is composed of the words ‘im’ and ‘el’. Translated, it means something like ‘God be with us’.
God with us' was... a battle cry, first used in the Later Roman Empire in Latin, and prominently in Germany from 1700 until the end of World War II in 1945.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Manuel is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Manuel for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Manuel is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Manuel is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #100 Manuel easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1906.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Manuel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,060 babies were named Manuel in the USA in 2022, ranking it at #309 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2020, when it was only ranked #315 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 1,016 boys were named Manuel.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Manuel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Manuel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Manuel, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Nut
Unicorn
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Manuel
Manuel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Manuel sounds like this:
