Manuel
Manuel is ranked 351st among boys in 2024 (954 births). Its best rank was 104th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- #351down 18 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 9540.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20052,665 births
- Best rank
- #104in 1906
- Since 1880
- 191,870people given the name
The story in the numbers
190,712 boys have been named Manuel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 2,665 births — 0.13% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 265 → 351).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1975, and the 1990s alone account for 13%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,158 girls have also been given it, 0.60% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Manuel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 802 | |
| 1890s | 952 | |
| 1900s | 1,751 | |
| 1910s | 8,371 | |
| 1920s | 15,663 | |
| 1930s | 12,330 | |
| 1940s | 14,186 | |
| 1950s | 16,375 | |
| 1960s | 16,038 | |
| 1970s | 17,697 | |
| 1980s | 19,983 | |
| 1990s | 24,174 | |
| 2000s | 23,442 | |
| 2010s | 13,868 | |
| 2020s | 5,080 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Manuel was the 153rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2005 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Manuel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Victorpeak 1990
- Gregoriopeak 1993
- Alfonsopeak 1991
- Claytonpeak 2000
- Sheltonpeak 1972
- Benitopeak 2023
- Caesarpeak 2015
- Dioniciopeak 1976
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.