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Manar

#6,725 in 2025Girls' name

Beacon, lighthouse, minaret

Manar has been given to 744 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #6,725 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Manar, 2025

1 in 195,000

Manar over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manar: meaning, origin, and history

Beacon, lighthouse, minaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Manar means

Manar means “beacon, lighthouse, minaret”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 739 girls were recorded with the name Manar between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,085 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,524 in 2020 to #6,725 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,401 in 2015 to #6,725 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Manar between 1996 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1996; its best national rank was #9,954 in 1996.

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.

How common is Manar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,725
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manar 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manars were born

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

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
739
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Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (261).

Is Manar 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
+730
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−201
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,324
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.2%
Peak was 2002 (47)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,085
2002

Spellings of Manar

Manar is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 22.7% against Manar's 0.09%.

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 Manar is used

Across 1910–2025, Manar was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 401,831 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Manar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manar around the world

Where Manar 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
    1999–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #3,119
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1982–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Manar by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,725
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 201
Best rank ever
#3,085
2002
Peak year
2002
47 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
739
Count in 2025
17

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,954
1996
Peak year
1996
5 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Manar

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

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Sibling names for Manar

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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