girls:
38 births since 2000
#5678 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1881
#2939 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1881
#5917 (24th percentile)
The name Manning is the #5,917 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,839 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 23.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,939 (35.9% percentile) for all time with 1,801 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,678 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 2000.
Manning first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 2000 for girls). Birth data for Manning is available in 121 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 7 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 Manning has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Manning reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 7.8% percentile (ranked #463) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 74 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Manning ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 20.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Manning reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Manning".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Manning. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Manning is pronounced as MA-nihng, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-nihng, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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