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Mandel vs Manny

American parents have registered 4,087 Mannys since 1880, against 583 Mandels. Manny is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mandel Manny

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

Manny has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Mandel had 14 and Manny had 16.

Side by side

  Mandel Manny
Total US births 5834,087
Most in one year 23113
Babies in 2025 under 537
Estimated living today 4203,300
Median age today 4927
Peak year 19732009
Best rank 1,871st boys1,472nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,181st
First recorded 19131900
Girls / boys 0 / 5830 / 4,087

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 Mandels alive today are over 49; half the Mannys are over 27. That is 22 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: Mandel and Manny.