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Manny

#3,220 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Emmanuel

Manny has been given to 4,087 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #3,220 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Manny, 2025

1 in 89,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manny: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Emmanuel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Manny means

Manny is a short form of Emmanuel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Manny → Emmanuel → Immanuel. The family’s meaning is “God is with us”, recorded in English.

Origin, language, and formation

Manny is used in English, Cebuano and Tagalog.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmanuel and Manfred.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Manny is pronounced /ˈmæni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,087 boys were recorded with the name Manny between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,052 in 1905.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,681 in 2020 to #3,220 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,046 in 2015 to #3,220 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 Manny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 46,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,220
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manny 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mannys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manny was born before 1990 — so the typical Manny is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,453
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 16.0% of all recorded uses (652).

Is Manny 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
−524
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−539
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,174
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.7%
Peak was 2009 (113)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,052
1905

Spellings of Manny

Manny is not the most common spelling — Randy is, with 32.2% against Manny's 0.40%.

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 Manny is used

Across 1910–2025, Manny was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 38,443 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Manny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manny around the world

Where Manny 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
    2000–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #876
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1989–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Manny

People whose public names include Manny, 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.

Manny in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Manny. Linked forms have their own page here.

ManyMannieManoloManuelManfredManne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Manny by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,220
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 539
Best rank ever
#1,052
1905
Peak year
2009
113 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,087
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Manny

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

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Names with a curve like Manny

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

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Sibling names for Manny

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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