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Manda vs Mansfield

American parents have registered 3,294 Mandas since 1880, against 513 Mansfields. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Manda Mansfield

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 131 years in which either name was published, Manda for 125 years and Mansfield for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Manda Mansfield
Total US births 3,294513
Most in one year 10221
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,000110
Median age today 4574
Peak year 19751917
Best rank 1,139th girls1,587th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801884
Girls / boys 3,294 / 00 / 513

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 Mansfields alive today are over 74; half the Mandas are over 45. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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