Mana
Mana is given to both girls and boys: 24 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,340 among girls’ names and #11,501 among boys’, #8,008 among all names counting both); 837 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mana?
#5,340 among girls’ names, 2025
Mana rose from #5,400 in 2015 to #5,340 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 14.9 per million.
37 babies in 2013, the peak
Mana peaked in 2013, when 37 babies were given it (25 girls, #5,425 among girls’ names). The 30 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,340 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,120 | 14 | #6,356 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,322 | 12 | #7,139 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,131 | 9 | #8,733 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,341 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,812 | 12 | #6,877 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,551 | 10 | #7,990 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,557 | 7 | #10,342 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,136 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,478 | 10 | #7,937 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,400 | 7 | #10,226 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,347 | 8 | #9,310 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,425 | 12 | #6,875 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,036 | 9 | #8,608 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,149 | 7 | #10,342 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,534 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,327 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,616 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,956 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,744 | 6 | #11,529 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,759 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,482 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,215 | 5 | #12,054 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,675 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,186 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,384 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,747 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,353 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,568 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,231 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,290 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,298 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,202 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,456 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,136 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,804 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,682 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,486 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,100 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,729 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,501 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,947 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,176 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,780 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,977 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,837 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,834 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,419 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,574 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 837 Americans recorded as Mana, 84% are girls and 16% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mana, and how old are they?
An estimated 808 Americans named Mana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,391 people named Mana (2,030 women and girls, 361 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 653 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mana born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,212 | 1.1× |
Where Mana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mana is most over-represented in California: since 1917 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,678 babies since 1880, Mana is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 184 babies (16%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jael | 7,948 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mana and names like it
- Compare Mana and ManhaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMana peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mana since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Mana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.