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Manda vs Mannon

American parents have registered 3,294 Mandas since 1880, against 12 Mannons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Manda against Mannon, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Manda Mannon

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

Manda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2016. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1932, when Manda had 15 and Mannon had 7.

Side by side

  Manda Mannon
Total US births 3,29412
Most in one year 1027
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,0005
Median age today 4528
Peak year 19751932
Best rank 1,139th girls3,092nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801932
Girls / boys 3,294 / 05 / 7

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 Mandas alive today are over 45; half the Mannons are over 28. That is 17 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 Manda Mannon
France 9080

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: Manda and Mannon.