Meaning of the nameManoel

Manoel is a male name, a variant of Manuel, a shortened form of Emanuel; the Hebrew ʿImmanuʾel means 'God is with us'.

Meaning

“variant of Manuel, a shortened form of Emanuel, 'God is with us'”

Source: Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Manoel · Wiktionary: Manuel · Behind the Name: Emmanuel

People (2022): 478,590
Rank in Brazil: #48
Median age: 58 years
2010 Census: 592,345; people

Manoel in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Manoel, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (105,416 people).

1,410 women 477,180 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Manoel is most common

States with the highest share of people named Manoel in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Amapá 0.563%
Pará 0.563%
Piauí 0.541%
Acre 0.522%
Rio Grande do Norte 0.504%

All states

State	People	% of population
Bahia	60,330	0.427%
São Paulo	60,318	0.136%
Pará	45,701	0.563%
Pernambuco	37,610	0.415%
Ceará	30,363	0.345%
Maranhão	27,819	0.411%
Minas Gerais	25,182	0.123%
Rio de Janeiro	23,471	0.146%
Paraíba	18,392	0.463%
Piauí	17,698	0.541%
Rio Grande do Norte	16,658	0.504%
Alagoas	15,302	0.489%
Amazonas	12,644	0.321%
Goiás	12,569	0.178%
Paraná	9,513	0.083%
Sergipe	8,517	0.385%
Mato Grosso	8,441	0.231%
Santa Catarina	8,092	0.106%
Rio Grande do Sul	7,237	0.067%
Tocantins	6,172	0.408%
Espírito Santo	5,534	0.144%
Distrito Federal	4,349	0.154%
Acre	4,329	0.522%
Amapá	4,132	0.563%
Mato Grosso do Sul	3,654	0.133%
Rondônia	3,185	0.201%
Roraima	1,378	0.216%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Manoel

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado, defines Manoel as a variation of Manuel, an aphetic form of Emanuel. Wiktionary traces Manuel to Biblical Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל and marks Manoel as an antiquated form. Behind the Name translates the Hebrew as 'God is with us', from 'with' and 'God', and records it as the name announced for the Messiah in the Old Testament. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 478,590 people named Manoel, with a median age of 58.

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Manoel · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning
Wiktionary: Manuel · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Emmanuel · behindthename.com · meaning
Behind the Name: Manoel · behindthename.com · origin

Questions about the name Manoel

What does the name Manoel mean?

Manoel means “variant of Manuel, a shortened form of Emanuel, 'God is with us'”, according to Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil and Wiktionary.

How many people are named Manoel in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 478,590 people with the first name Manoel, which ranks it number 48 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Manoel a boy's or a girl's name?

Manoel is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 1,410 women and 477,180 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Manoel?

Manoel is a name of Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Manoel most common?

Proportionally, in Amapá: 0.563% of the state's population is named Manoel (4,132 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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