Manila
Manila was last recorded in 1944, when 5 babies were given it; 214 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Manila?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,997, in 1944; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
104 babies in 1898, the peak
Manila peaked in 1898, when 104 girls were given it, #306 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 5 | #4,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,087 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,181 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 10 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 34 | #512 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 104 | #306 | 0.40 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Manila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Manila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Manila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manila, and how old are they?
An estimated 7 Americans named Manila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 286 people named Manila (269 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26.0 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,533 babies since 1880, Manila is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 68 babies recorded by SSA was a Manila (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.
More about Manila and names like it
- Compare Manila and ManuelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sManila peaked in 1898.
- The top names of 1898The year the most babies were named Manila.
- Names starting with MMost given first.