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Manav

#13,206 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Manav has been given to 744 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #13,206 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Manav, 2025

1 in 663,000

Manav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manav: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Manav means

Manav is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Manav is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 744 boys were recorded with the name Manav between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,731 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,878 in 2020 to #13,206 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,410 in 2015 to #13,206 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 Manav?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,206
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manav 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manavs were born

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

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
744
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Choose a decade

2000s — 58.1% of all recorded uses (432).

Is Manav 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
−1,371
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,328
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,796
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.15×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.7%
Peak was 2000 (65)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,731
2000

Spellings of Manav

Manav is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 51.9% against Manav's 0.73%.

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 Manav is used

Across 1910–2025, Manav was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 267,837 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Manav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manav around the world

Where Manav 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2022
    #1,972
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Manav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,206
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,328
Best rank ever
#1,731
2000
Peak year
2000
65 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
744
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Manav

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

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Sibling names for Manav

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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