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Mandy vs Manuella

American parents have registered 42,603 Mandys since 1880, against 642 Manuellas. Mandy is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mandy against Manuella, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mandy Manuella

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

Mandy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Mandy had 31 and Manuella had 17.

Side by side

  Mandy Manuella
Total US births 42,603642
Most in one year 3,12423
Babies in 2025 3117
Estimated living today 37,000470
Median age today 4514
Peak year 19782019
Best rank 96th girls5,449th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th6,546th
First recorded 18801916
Girls / boys 42,465 / 138642 / 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 Mandys alive today are over 45; half the Manuellas are over 14. That is 31 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 Mandy Manuella
France 5,6458,545
Belgium 358127
England and Wales 18597

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: Mandy and Manuella.