Manna
Manna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,297 among girls’ names; 218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Manna?
#14,297 among girls’ names, 2025
Manna fell from #12,562 in 2015 to #14,297 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
13 babies in 2018, the peak
Manna peaked in 2018, when 13 girls were given it, #8,434 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,297 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,784 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,715 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,909 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,614 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,481 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,424 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,434 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,709 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,461 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,562 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,229 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,726 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,566 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,935 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,652 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,722 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,427 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,562 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,351 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,305 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,124 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,666 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,611 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,750 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,912 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,271 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,767 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,209 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,885 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Manna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Manna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Manna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manna, and how old are they?
An estimated 216 Americans named Manna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 481 people named Manna (427 women and girls, 54 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 177 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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).
How common is the spelling Manna?
Manna is a less common spelling of Manha: SSA has recorded 218 Manna and 1,327 Manha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,565 babies since 1880, Manna is the eighth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 175 babies (3.4%), the sixth 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 Manna
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 Manna and names like it
- Compare Manna and ManhaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sManna peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Manna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Manna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.