Manning vs Manny
American parents have registered 4,087 Mannys since 1880, against 1,884 Mannings. Manny is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Manning Manny
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 130 years in which either name was published, Manny for 91 years and Manning for 39 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1881–1940 Manning ahead, apart from 5 short spells
- 1944–2025 Manny ahead, apart from one short spell
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Manning | Manny | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,884 | 4,087 |
| Most in one year | 44 | 113 |
| Babies in 2025 | 24 | 37 |
| Estimated living today | 1,100 | 3,300 |
| Median age today | 19 | 27 |
| Peak year | 1916 | 2009 |
| Best rank | 964th boys | 1,472nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,208th | 3,181st |
| First recorded | 1881 | 1900 |
| Girls / boys | 44 / 1,840 | 0 / 4,087 |
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 Mannys alive today are over 27; half the Mannings are over 19. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Manning South Carolina (51.7×), Texas (1.9×)
- Manny Arizona (5.8×), New York (5.2×), California (2.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Manning and Manny.