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.
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.
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.