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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

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

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.

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 1,8844,087
Most in one year 44113
Babies in 2025 2437
Estimated living today 1,1003,300
Median age today 1927
Peak year 19162009
Best rank 964th boys1,472nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,208th3,181st
First recorded 18811900
Girls / boys 44 / 1,8400 / 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

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.