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Mannix vs Manuela

American parents have registered 11,068 Manuelas since 1880, against 526 Mannixes. Manuela is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mannix against Manuela, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mannix Manuela

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

Manuela 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 2010, when Mannix had 31 and Manuela had 62.

Side by side

  Mannix Manuela
Total US births 52611,068
Most in one year 31202
Babies in 2025 968
Estimated living today 5105,900
Median age today 1443
Peak year 20101924
Best rank 3,453rd boys488th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd2,564th
First recorded 19671880
Girls / boys 0 / 52611,033 / 35

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 Manuelas alive today are over 43; half the Mannixes are over 14. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Mannix Manuela
France 59,560
England and Wales 19320
Ireland 6923

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: Mannix and Manuela.