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Manolis

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Greek origin

Manolis has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1984, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Manolis, 1987

1 in 601,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manolis: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Greek origin

Greek

What Manolis means

Manolis is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Manolis is used in English. Its origins include Greek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 boys were recorded with the name Manolis between 1979 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1984; its best national rank was #5,343 in 1984.

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 Manolis?

Manolis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 601,000
6 of 3,605,072 births
Among boys only
1 in 311,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
416,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manolis 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 1987 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 416,475 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manolis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manoliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manolis was born before 1984 — so the typical Manolis is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
68.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 68.4% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Manolis 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 1984 (7)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,343
1984

Spellings of Manolis

Manolis is not the most common spelling — Manolo is, with 98.8% against Manolis's 1.2%.

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.

Manolis around the world

Where Manolis 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.

  • France
    1997–2024
    #4,425
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Manolis 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
#5,343
1984
Peak year
1984
7 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Manolis

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

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Sibling names for Manolis

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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