Emanii
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- eh-MAH-nee
- Origin
- Swahili
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Emanii is a girls' name of Swahili origin, meaning “faith”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Emanii mean?
Swahili: variant of Imani, Swahili from Arabic iman
“faith”
Imani, 'faith', is the seventh principle of Kwanzaa.
Is Emanii a girl's or a boy's name?
Emanii is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Emanii in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Emanii, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Emanii in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 171 girls in the US were given Emanii or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,176, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Emanii in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
Names like Emanii
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Malani, Kaylani, Milani, Meilani, Kailani, Zuri, Naylani, Ailany, Jaylani, Elani, Nyomi
Other spellings of Emanii
Names related to Emanii
More Swahili names
Imani, Malaika, Jabari, Zhuri, Imara, Maisha, Asante, Imaani, Malaikah, Taraji, Xuri, Zuriyah, Johari, Simba, Zamani, Ahmani
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Emanii: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/emanii, updated 20 October 2026.