Manila
Manila is a girl's name that peaked in 1898, when it was the 305th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1944. About 8 Manilas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 83.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Manila
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 214
- Estimated living today
- 8
- Median age today
- 83
- Peak year
- 1898
- Best rank
- 305th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1897
How old the living Manilas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 214 babies given the name since 1897, about 8 are alive — 4 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1942 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Manilas
- Manila Esposito (born 2006)Italian gymnast
People named Manila with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1898
The most popular girls’ names the year Manila peaked:
Manila elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Manila | 1,171 | — |
| France girls | Manila | 70 | 5,342nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Manila by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Manila against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.