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Mandi vs Maniyah

American parents have registered 10,025 Mandis since 1880, against 703 Maniyahs. But in 2025 it was Maniyah that was commoner, 11 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mandi Maniyah

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 51 years and Maniyah for 18 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Mandi Maniyah
Total US births 10,025703
Most in one year 69749
Babies in 2025 711
Estimated living today 9,600700
Median age today 4316
Peak year 19772009
Best rank 334th girls3,361st girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd8,860th
First recorded 19571998
Girls / boys 10,025 / 0703 / 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 Maniyahs are over 16. 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: Mandi and Maniyah.