Emanuel

eh-MAN-yoo-el

A biblical name meaning “God with us.”

Meaning

Emanuel comes through Greek and Latin from the biblical Hebrew name Immanuel, built from im-anu-El, meaning “God with us.” In the excerpts, it is also glossed as “God will help” and identified as the same name as Immanuel, the biblical form.

Origin

Fun fact

A 1920 source lists several forms of the name, including Emanuel, Emmanuele, Manuel, and Manoel.

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Confidence: mixed. Sources: History of Christian Names, Praenomina; or, the etymology of the principal Christian names of Great Britain and Ireland, A list of Christian names, their derivatives, nicknames and equivalents in several languages.

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