Manaal
Manaal was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,666 among girls’ names; 338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manaal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Manaal?
#8,666 among girls’ names, 2025
Manaal fell from #6,886 in 2015 to #8,666 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 7.5 per million.
19 babies in 2002, the peak
Manaal peaked in 2002, when 19 girls were given it, #6,037 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,666 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,121 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,783 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,894 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,314 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,984 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,907 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,291 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,695 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,249 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,886 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,201 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,412 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,978 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,970 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,148 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,223 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,524 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,834 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,042 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,937 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,077 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,461 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,037 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,645 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,612 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,622 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Manaal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Manaal has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Manaal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manaal, and how old are they?
An estimated 335 Americans named Manaal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 283 people named Manaal (272 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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).
How common is the spelling Manaal?
Manaal is a less common spelling of Manal: SSA has recorded 338 Manaal and 1,440 Manal since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,156 babies since 1880, Manaal is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 65 babies (18%), 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 Manaal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Manaal and names like it
- Compare Manaal and ManalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sManaal peaked in 2002.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Manaal since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Manaal.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Manaal alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.