Entry № 6420 · Spanish origin

Manuela Manuela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-NWEH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"God with us (Liberator of the Liberator)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "god with us (liberator of the liberator)".

Manuela is the feminine of Manuel — from Hebrew Immanuel ("God with us").

Featured on Venezuelan banknotes.

God with us (Liberator of the Liberator) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Manuela
Transliteration
Manuela
Pronunciation
/ məˈnweɪ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Manuela stands.

Manuela 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.

Manuelas before her.

Real people
Manuela Sáenz
Ecuadorian revolutionary, Bolívar's partner.
1797 – 1856
In fiction
Manuela
Featured in García Márquez's The General in His Labyrinth.
1989

Names connected to Manuela.

The number behind Manuela.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Manuela reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.