Manning
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Manning | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 39 | |
| 1890s | 16 | |
| 1900s | 22 | |
| 1910s | 200 | |
| 1920s | 207 | |
| 1930s | 153 | |
| 1940s | 143 | |
| 1950s | 112 | |
| 1960s | 91 | |
| 1970s | 68 | |
| 1980s | 47 | |
| 1990s | 79 | |
| 2000s | 233 | |
| 2010s | 310 | |
| 2020s | 102 |
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.
- Elihupeak 1928
- Leanderpeak 2023
- Arlingtonpeak 1917
- Orinpeak 1920
- Mahlonpeak 1919
- Wilsonpeak 1918
- Harmanpeak 2008
- Larkinpeak 2019
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.