Maniah
Maniah was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 236 Americans have been recorded with it between 1999 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maniah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maniah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,639, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2005, the peak
Maniah peaked in 2005, when 21 girls were given it, #5,932 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #16,639 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,277 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,573 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,561 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,226 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,607 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,885 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,885 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,397 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,203 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 21 | #6,483 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,464 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,360 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,932 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,078 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,983 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,234 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,665 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,932 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,081 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maniah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maniah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maniah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maniah, and how old are they?
An estimated 234 Americans named Maniah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 217 people named Maniah (212 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below 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).
How common is the spelling Maniah?
Maniah is a less common spelling of Manya: SSA has recorded 236 Maniah and 1,024 Manya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,563 babies since 1880, Maniah is the eighth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 145 babies recorded by SSA was a Maniah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Maniah
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 Maniah and names like it
- Compare Maniah and ManyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sManiah peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maniah since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Maniah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maniah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.