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Manas

#8,012 in 2025Boys' name

Belonging to the mind or spirit, mental, spiritual, through मानस

Manas has been given to 330 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #8,012 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Manas, 2025

1 in 332,000

Manas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manas: meaning, origin, and history

Belonging to the mind or spirit, mental, spiritual, through मानस

Hindi

What Manas means

Manas belongs to the name family reached through Manas → मानस → मानस. Its meaning is “belonging to the mind or spirit, mental, spiritual”.

Origin, language, and formation

Manas is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Manas comes through Hindi मानस.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include मानस.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 330 boys were recorded with the name Manas between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,517 in 2002.

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 Manas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,012
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manas was born before 2008 — so the typical Manas is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
330
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Choose a decade

2000s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Manas 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
−2,207
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2002 (25)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,517
2002

Spellings of Manas

Manas is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 31.0% against Manas's 0.19%.

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 Manas is used

Across 1910–2025, Manas was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,805,656 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Manas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manas around the world

Where Manas 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
    2001–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2000–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Manas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,012
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,517
2002
Peak year
2002
25 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
330
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Manas

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

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Sibling names for Manas

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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