Manessa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Manessa has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Manessa, 2024
1 in 478,000
Manessa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Manessa?
Manessa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Manessa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manessa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Manessas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Manessa was born before 2015 — so the typical Manessa is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 146
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Manessa 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (13)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.4% average annual change
Spellings of Manessa
Manessa is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 55.9% against Manessa's 0.03%.
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 Manessa is used
Across 1910–2025, Manessa was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 868,326 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 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. Manessa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Manessa around the world
Where Manessa 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 & Wales2018–2023#5,688in 2023
- France2011–2025#1,318in 2025
- Canada2013–2022#2,896in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Manessa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Manessa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Manessa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.