Manda vs Mannie
American parents have registered 3,294 Mandas since 1880, against 1,559 Mannies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Manda Mannie
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 138 years in which either name was published, Manda for 94 years and Mannie for 44 years. The lead changed hands 27 times.
- 1880–1912 Manda ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1915–1922 Mannie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1923–1925 Manda ahead
- 1926–1954 Mannie ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1955–2009 Manda ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2010–2022 Mannie ahead
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Manda | Mannie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,294 | 1,559 |
| Most in one year | 102 | 42 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,000 | 390 |
| Median age today | 45 | 63 |
| Peak year | 1975 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 1,139th girls | 1,481st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 3,294 / 0 | 505 / 1,054 |
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 Mannies alive today are over 63; half the Mandas are over 45. That is 18 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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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Manda and Mannie.