Manuela
Manuela was given to 68 girls in 2025, #2,573 among girls’ names; 11,068 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,860 Americans named Manuela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 21 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manuela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Manuela mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Manuela is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Manuela?
#2,573 among girls’ names, 2025
Manuela rose from #2,800 in 2015 to #2,573 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 35.3 to 42.3 per million.
202 babies in 1924, the peak
Manuela peaked in 1924, when 202 girls were given it, #491 among girls’ names. The 68 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,092 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,484 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,243 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,378 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,018 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,555 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,184 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,374 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,636 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,800 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,301 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,960 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,823 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,501 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,827 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,875 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,500 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,671 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,367 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,655 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,220 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,237 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,055 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,041 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,319 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,550 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,175 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,752 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,138 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,294 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,152 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,019 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,604 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,943 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,449 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,788 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,423 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,036 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,042 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,776 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,525 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,981 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,776 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,690 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,478 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,701 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,576 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,524 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,366 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,445 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,495 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,519 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,685 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,569 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,691 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 68 | #1,415 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 73 | #1,296 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,291 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,847 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,510 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,476 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 77 | #1,262 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 71 | #1,306 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 79 | #1,200 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 89 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 73 | #1,223 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 74 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 105 | #922 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 76 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 125 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 110 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 145 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 124 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 118 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 111 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 107 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 100 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 92 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 94 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 86 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 94 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 92 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 102 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 104 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 100 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 103 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 132 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 120 | #600 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 136 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 156 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 173 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1928 | 192 | #501 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 191 | #508 | 0.16 |
| 1926 | 190 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 197 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1924 | 202 | #491 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 169 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 184 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 197 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1920 | 200 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1919 | 158 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 151 | #584 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 104 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 122 | #612 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 111 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 89 | #606 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 76 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 71 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 56 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 61 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1909 | 58 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1908 | 38 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 43 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 43 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 37 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1904 | 32 | #606 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 29 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 24 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 23 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 41 | #528 | 0.14 |
| 1899 | 25 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 21 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 16 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 18 | #778 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 20 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 14 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 15 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 15 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 13 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 8 | #999 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,233 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 8 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 7 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 9 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 10 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 8 | #736 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 8 | #716 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 7 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 5 | #901 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Manuela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Manuela has been given almost only to girls: 35 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Manuela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manuela, and how old are they?
5,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 53% of the 11,068 Americans ever recorded as Manuela. The median Manuela alive today is 43 years old; half are between 21 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 22,516 people named Manuela (22,354 women and girls, 162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,039 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 554 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,240 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 970 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 959 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 979 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Manuela born?
The states with the most babies named Manuela are Texas, California and Florida, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5,142 | #3,624 | 7.1× |
| California | 1,304 | #2,980 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 458 | #984 | 1.6× |
| New Mexico | 347 | not ranked | 5.5× |
| Arizona | 327 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| New York | 304 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 110 | #848 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 43 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 33 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Manuela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Manuela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 7.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Manuela with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,100 babies since 1880, Manuela is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 85 babies (80%), again the most given.
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 Manuela
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 Manuela and names like it
- Compare Manuela and ManuellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sManuela peaked in 1924.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Manuela since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Manuela.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Manuela alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.