girls:
10.9k births since 1880
#1506 (74th percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1926
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
10.9k births since 1880
#2523 (67th percentile)
The name Manuela is the #2,523 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,906 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 67.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,506 (73.7% percentile) for all time with 10,871 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1926.
Manuela has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1926 for boys).
The name Manuela has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Manuela reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 30.5% percentile (ranked #424) with 156 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 161 births per million (ranked 30.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Manuela ranks #880 for girls (7.1% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 25.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Manuela reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #518) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1932.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Manuela".
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Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Manuela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.0% confident that Manuela is pronounced as mahn-WEH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muhn-WEH-luh, at 17.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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