Manaia — #8699 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Manaia

The Social Security Administration has registered 274 babies named Manaia between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Manaia currently holds the #8699 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Manaia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 42 additional births since 2011.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Manaia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Manaia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Manaia in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Manaia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 274 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.