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Manda vs Maniya

American parents have registered 3,294 Mandas since 1880, against 576 Maniyas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Manda against Maniya, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Manda Maniya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Manda for 119 years and Maniya for 25 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Manda Maniya
Total US births 3,294576
Most in one year 10253
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,000570
Median age today 4518
Peak year 19752006
Best rank 1,139th girls3,136th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801997
Girls / boys 3,294 / 0576 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mandas alive today are over 45; half the Maniyas are over 18. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Manda and Maniya.