Entry № 2979 · French origin

Emmanuelle Emmanuelle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-MAN-yoo-el /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"God is with us (Emmanuelle Charpentier, CRISPR Nobel)"
Syllables
4
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.

Emmanuelle does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

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.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Emmanuelle reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.