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Mandi vs Manfred

American parents have registered 10,025 Mandis since 1880, against 1,455 Manfreds. Mandi is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mandi against Manfred, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mandi Manfred

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 116 years in which either name was published, Mandi for 60 years and Manfred for 56 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Mandi Manfred
Total US births 10,0251,455
Most in one year 69737
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 9,600790
Median age today 4359
Peak year 19771958
Best rank 334th girls1,265th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 19571904
Girls / boys 10,025 / 00 / 1,455

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 Manfreds alive today are over 59; half the Mandis are over 43. That is 16 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mandi Manfred
France 25680

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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