girls:
10 births since 2005
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
114 births since 1991
#4472 (2nd percentile)
overall:
124 births since 1991
#7615 (2nd percentile)
The name Mani is the #7,615 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 124 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,472 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 114 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2005.
Mani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Mani is available in 17 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mani has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 58.3% of babies named Mani were boys.
For boys, Mani reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #868) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mani ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 69.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mani reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #947) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Mani is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #947 (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mani".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Mani is pronounced as MAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-NEE, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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