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Mandi vs Manon

American parents have registered 10,025 Mandis since 1880, against 838 Manons. But in 2025 it was Manon that was commoner, 10 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mandi against Manon, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mandi Manon

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 89 years in which either name was published, Mandi for 61 years and Manon for 28 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Mandi Manon
Total US births 10,025838
Most in one year 69726
Babies in 2025 710
Estimated living today 9,600730
Median age today 4330
Peak year 19771999
Best rank 334th girls4,313th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd9,457th
First recorded 19571917
Girls / boys 10,025 / 0833 / 5

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 Mandis alive today are over 43; half the Manons are over 30. That is 13 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 Mandi Manon
France 25174,035

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: Mandi and Manon.