Manuela
About 11,068 American babies have been named Manuela since 1880, most of them around 1924. In 2025 it ranked 2,564th. About 5,900 Manuelas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Manuela boys named Manuela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,068
- Estimated living today
- 5,900
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 488th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,564th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 11,033 / 35
How old the living Manuelas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,068 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,900 are alive — 54 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 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 Manuelas
- Manuela Schwesig (born 1974)German politician (SPD), Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Manuela Sáenz (1797–1856)Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine
- Manuela Maleeva (born 1967)Bulgarian female tennis player
- Manuela Velasco (born 1975)Spanish actress
- Manuela Carmena (born 1944)Spanish judge and politician, mayor of Madrid
- Manuela Arcuri (born 1977)Italian actress and model
- Manuela Di Centa (born 1963)Italian cross-country skier (borm 1963)
- Manuela Zinsberger (born 1995)Austrian association football player
People named Manuela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Manuela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Manuela is most concentrated in Texas (8.2×), New Mexico (7.9×), Arizona (3.2×), Florida (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Manuela peaked:
Manuela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Manuela | 12,943 | 28th |
| France girls | Manuela +1 spelling | 9,560 | 122nd |
| Italy girls | Manuela | 5,901 | — |
| Austria girls | Manuela | 3,984 | 12th |
| Switzerland girls | Manuela | 420 | 132nd |
| Poland girls | Manuela | 361 birth registrations | 127th |
| England and Wales girls | Manuela | 320 | 1,490th |
| Belgium girls | Manuela | 290 | 422nd |
| Ireland girls | Manuela | 23 | 734th |
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.
Manuela: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Manuela | 343 | 0.028% | 106th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Manuela | 51 | 0.012% | 268th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Manuela | 26 | 0.040% | 56th |
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, Manuela is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.05% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Manuela: rank by region
In 2016, Manuela was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Manuela | 385 | 7 |
In 2024, Manuela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andalucía | Manuela | 9 | 460 |
In 2025, Manuela was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Manuela | 276 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Manuela | 255 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – 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.
Manuela by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Manuela 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 | Manuela | 2,790 | 4,355 |
| Finland girls | Manuela | 54 | 176 |
| the Netherlands boys | Manuela | — | 49 |
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.
Where Manuela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 132,788 women called Manuela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huelva | Manuela | 5,664 | 20.868 | 3 |
| Badajoz | Manuela | 5,983 | 17.755 | 6 |
| Jaén | Manuela | 4,977 | 15.943 | 12 |
| Sevilla | Manuela | 13,955 | 13.770 | 12 |
| Cádiz | Manuela | 8,639 | 13.481 | 10 |
| Córdoba | Manuela | 4,548 | 11.507 | 15 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Manuela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.