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Manish

Boys' name

Thought, wisdom

Manish has been given to 537 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1975, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Manish, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manish: meaning, origin, and history

Thought, wisdom

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Manish means

Manish means “thought, wisdom”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Manish is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil and Nepali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 537 boys were recorded with the name Manish between 1968 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,687 in 1975.

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 Manish?

Manish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manish 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manish was born before 1983 — so the typical Manish is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
537
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (195).

Is Manish 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 1975 (30)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,687
1975

Spellings of Manish

Manish is not the most common spelling — Anish is, with 26.4% against Manish's 4.6%.

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 Manish is used

Across 1910–2025, Manish was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 716,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Manish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manish around the world

Where Manish 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
    1996–2013
    #3,822
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #1,577
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    2003–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Manish by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,687
1975
Peak year
1975
30 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
537
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Manish

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

MannixManrajManoahMansurManvirMansourManoloManavMansoorManasTanishMansaManvikMandelDanishKavishManassehManveerManasesTavishHamishMansonAarishManu

Sibling names for Manish

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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