Manaia
Manaia was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,367 among girls’ names; 331 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manaia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Manaia?
#7,367 among girls’ names, 2025
Manaia fell from #6,624 in 2015 to #7,367 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 9.3 per million.
23 babies in 2023, the peak
Manaia peaked in 2023, when 23 babies were given it (16 girls, #7,130 among girls’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,367 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,757 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,130 | 7 | #10,380 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,337 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,308 | 6 | #11,627 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,435 | 6 | #11,475 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,908 | 7 | #10,417 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,081 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,708 | 5 | #13,532 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,107 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,624 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,202 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,396 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,884 | 5 | #13,486 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,794 | 6 | #11,740 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,945 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,650 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,525 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,802 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,678 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,226 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,349 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,982 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,094 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,650 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,297 | 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 Manaia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 331 Americans recorded as Manaia, 87% are girls and 13% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Manaia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manaia, and how old are they?
An estimated 329 Americans named Manaia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 237 people named Manaia (171 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 231 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,078 babies since 1880, Manaia is the sixth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 140 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
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 Manaia
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 Manaia and names like it
- Compare Manaia and ManhaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sManaia peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Manaia since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Manaia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Manaia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.