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Manning

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Manning is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 682nd, in 1881.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
210.00% of boys
Peak year
191644 births
Best rank
#682in 1881
Since 1881
1,860people given the name
Babies named Manning, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,822 boys have been named Manning in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 44 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 38 girls have also been given it, 2.0% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Manning
1880s39
1890s16
1900s22
1910s200
1920s207
1930s153
1940s143
1950s112
1960s91
1970s68
1980s47
1990s79
2000s233
2010s310
2020s102

In 1916, its biggest year

Manning was the 969th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.

Names that rose and fell with Manning

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.