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Manon

Manon is a girl's name that peaked in 1999, when it was the 4,313th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 730 Manons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Manon boys named Manon

By the numbers

Total US births
838
Estimated living today
730
Median age today
30
Peak year
1999
Best rank
4,313th
Rank in 2025
9,457th
First recorded
1917
Girls / boys
833 / 5

How old the living Manons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 838 babies given the name since 1917, about 730 are alive — 87 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Manons

People named Manon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Manon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Manon is most concentrated in California (9.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1999

The most popular girls’ names the year Manon peaked:

All the names of 1999

Manon elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Manon 174,030 1st
Belgium girls Manon 11,254 5th
Switzerland girls Manon 1,602 54th
England and Wales girls Manon 669 671st
France boys Manon 5 2,774th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Manon: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Manon 223 0.018% 257th
French girls Switzerland Manon 1,378 0.317% 7th
Italian girls Switzerland Manon 1 0.002% 191st

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Manon is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.45% of children were given it – 66 of them.

Manon: rank by region

In 2025, Manon was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Manon 49 85
Wallonia Manon 115 22

In 2021, Manon was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Manon 8 1

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Manon appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (33rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (37th), Province of East Flanders (60th), Province of Namur (68th), Province of Limburg (69th), Province of Antwerp (78th), Province of Hainaut (153rd) and Province of Liège (157th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Manon among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands girls Manon 12,931 15,929
the Netherlands boys Manon 102
Finland girls Manon 6 14

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Manon against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.