Entry № 0740 · French, Hebrew origin

Emmanuelle Emmanuelle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-MAN-yoo-el /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French, Hebrew
Meaning
"God is with us (Emmanuelle Charpentier, CRISPR Nobel)"
Syllables
4
Rank · US 2025
№ 0
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "god is with us (emmanuelle charpentier, crispr nobel)".

Emmanuelle is the French feminine of Emmanuel — from the Hebrew *Immanu'el* ("God is with us"), the prophetic name in Isaiah 7:14. **Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968)** — **French microbiologist and biochemist who in 2020 became one of two women (with Jennifer Doudna) to share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — the first time the Chemistry Nobel was shared by two women alone — for the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system**, called "genetic scissors." **Her 2011 collaboration with Doudna, published in *Science* in 2012, transformed molecular biology and laid the groundwork for treatments for sickle-cell disease, beta-thalassemia, and dozens of other conditions**. **Founding Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin (2015)**. **Kavli Prize (2018); Breakthrough Prize (2015)**.

Subject of Walter Isaacson's *The Code Breaker* (2021) — focused on Doudna and Charpentier.

God is with us. CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing scissors; 2020 Chemistry Nobel — first shared by two women alone.

The name in its native script.

Emmanuelle
Transliteration
Emmanuelle
Pronunciation
/ ɛˈmæn.juː.ɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Emmanuelle stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 0 in the U.S.
All-time peak
№ 0 in 0
Babies named Emmanuelle · last year
95 in the U.S.
First entered SSA top-1000
0
Rank, 1995–2025 Lower = more popular
№25 №75 №150 №250 1995 2005 2015 2020 2025 PEAK · — NOW · —

Emmanuelles before her.

Real people
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French Nobel biochemist.
born 1968
In fiction
Emmanuelle
Various French film roles.

Names connected to Emmanuelle.

The number behind Emmanuelle.

7

The Seeker

Emmanuelle reduces to seven — the number of CRISPR Nobel.

Why families chose this name.

"CRISPR scissors. Ten letters. Emmanuelle."
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