Manson
Manson was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 816 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Manson?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,384, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1923, the peak
Manson peaked in 1923, when 26 boys were given it, #1,479 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #10,384 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,534 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,630 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,879 | 7.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,343 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,370 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,566 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,309 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,619 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,350 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 9 | #8,610 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,752 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,432 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,533 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,629 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,390 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,216 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,034 | 5.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,951 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,912 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,963 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,677 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,572 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,982 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,867 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,229 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,840 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,900 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,773 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,408 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,881 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,823 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,631 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,852 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,183 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,945 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,787 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,385 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,062 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,334 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,019 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,998 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,564 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,935 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,603 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,079 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,982 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,940 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,433 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,638 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,367 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,429 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,736 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,584 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,057 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,554 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,692 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,202 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,476 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,567 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,006 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,479 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,437 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,226 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,481 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,265 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,780 | 17.9 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,308 | 12.4 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,479 | 23.7 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,858 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,226 | 13.6 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,017 | 16.0 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,339 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,802 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,373 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,109 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,936 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,736 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,479 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,771 | 11.6 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,378 | 36.0 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,357 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,182 | 45.3 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,004 | 56.5 |
| 1892 | 8 | #836 | 65.6 |
| 1886 | 6 | #925 | 54.2 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,010 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Manson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Manson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Manson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manson, and how old are they?
An estimated 322 Americans named Manson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 14 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 513 people named Manson (9 women and girls, 504 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 340 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Manson
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 Manson and names like it
- Compare Manson and WilfordBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sManson peaked in 1923.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Manson.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Manson alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.