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Manal

#3,812 in 2025Girls' name

Achievement, attainment

Manal has been given to 1,440 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #3,812 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Manal, 2025

1 in 85,000

Manal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manal: meaning, origin, and history

Achievement, attainment

Arabic

What Manal means

Manal means “achievement, attainment”.

Origin, language, and formation

Manal is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Manal comes through Arabic مَنَال.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,440 girls were recorded with the name Manal between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,026 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,423 in 2020 to #3,812 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,573 in 2015 to #3,812 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Manal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,812
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manal was born before 2006 — so the typical Manal is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,440
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (373).

Is Manal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+126
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,611
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−239
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.9%
Peak was 2021 (55)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,026
2021

Spellings of Manal

Manal is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 18.9% against Manal's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Manal is used

Across 1910–2025, Manal was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 215,064 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Manal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manal around the world

Where Manal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2020
    #765
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2007–2014
    #752
    in 2014
  • France
    1978–2025
    #1,224
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Manal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,812
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,611
Best rank ever
#3,026
2021
Peak year
2021
55 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,440
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Manal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Manal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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