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Mandi vs Maniya

American parents have registered 10,025 Mandis since 1880, against 576 Maniyas. Mandi is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mandi 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 69 years in which either name was published, Mandi for 63 years and Maniya for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Mandi Maniya
Total US births 10,025576
Most in one year 69753
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 9,600570
Median age today 4318
Peak year 19772006
Best rank 334th girls3,136th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 19571997
Girls / boys 10,025 / 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 Mandis alive today are over 43; half the Maniyas are over 18. That is 25 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: Mandi and Maniya.