Manual
Manual is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192823 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1910
- 1,021people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,021 boys have been named Manual in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 23 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 23 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1920s alone account for 17%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Manual | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 113 | |
| 1920s | 177 | |
| 1930s | 111 | |
| 1940s | 97 | |
| 1950s | 107 | |
| 1960s | 123 | |
| 1970s | 111 | |
| 1980s | 94 | |
| 1990s | 54 | |
| 2000s | 28 | |
| 2010s | 6 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Manual was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1928 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Manual
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Yalepeak 1929
- Santopeak 1925
- Gordanpeak 1930
- Salvadorepeak 1924
- Merrellpeak 1915
- Calvertpeak 1924
- Vitopeak 1925
- Hiawathapeak 1934
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.