Manish — boys' name
537 babies named Manish in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1975. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Manish was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Manish in 1975 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Manish
The Social Security Administration has registered 537 babies named Manish between 1968 and 2022, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Manish currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Manish performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 195 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Manish shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Manish in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Manish 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 537 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.
Manish at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Manish popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1968
- Peak year (1975)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 55 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
537 total births across 55 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1975 with 30 births in a single year.
Manish by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 195 births that decade — 36% of Manish's all-time total
Manish decade highlights
- Peak decade 195 births
- Runner-up 130 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Manish's strongest decade
195 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Manish by state
Where Manish concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 28 | 5.2% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 12 | 2.2% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.9% |
| #4 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.9% |
28 of 537 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 5.2% of nationwide
- Illinois 2.2% of nationwide
- New Jersey 0.9% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 5.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.