Mansa
#4,100 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mansa has been given to 322 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #4,100 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 34 recorded.
Babies named Mansa, 2025
1 in 128,000
Mansa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mansa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 128,000
- 26 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 65,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,100
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 88,382 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mansa sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mansa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mansas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mansa was born before 2020 — so the typical Mansa is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 52.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 322
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (170).
Is Mansa 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
- +713
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −716
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +9,208
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 76.5%
- Peak was 2023 (34)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.9% average annual change
Spellings of Mansa
Mansa is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 41.9% against Mansa's 0.25%.
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 Mansa is used
Across 1910–2025, Mansa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,954,429 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Mansa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mansa around the world
Where Mansa 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 & Wales2019–2023#2,814in 2023
- France2016–2025#3,500in 2025
- Canada2023–2023#3,103in 2023
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.
Mansa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mansa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mansa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.