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Manley

Boys' name

Common clearing

Manley has been given to 2,251 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1927, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Manley, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manley: meaning, origin, and history

Common clearing

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Manley means

Manley means “common clearing”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Manley is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmæn.li/ for Manley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,251 boys were recorded with the name Manley between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1927; its best national rank was #540 in 1897.

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 Manley?

Manley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manley 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manley was born before 1931 — so the typical Manley is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
576
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (500).

Is Manley 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 1927 (67)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#540
1897

Spellings of Manley

Manley is not the most common spelling — Stanley is, with 48.1% against Manley's 0.36%.

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 Manley is used

Across 1910–2025, Manley was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 182,063 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 50,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Manley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manley around the world

Where Manley 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.

  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Manley

People whose public names include Manley, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Manley 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
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Best rank ever
#540
1897
Peak year
1927
67 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,251
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Manley

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

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Names with a curve like Manley

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Manley, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Manley

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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