Manuelita
Manuelita was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 989 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manuelita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Manuelita mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Manuelita is “a diminutive of the female given name Manuela”
From Manuela + -ita.
/manweˈlita/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Manuelita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,166, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1922, the peak
Manuelita peaked in 1922, when 26 girls were given it, #1,666 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,166 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,044 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,194 | 2.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,468 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,881 | 4.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,279 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,552 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,841 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,142 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,674 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 8 | #7,285 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,785 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,968 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,035 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,107 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,835 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,075 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,274 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,163 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,345 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,103 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,532 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,734 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,130 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,637 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,613 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,550 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,838 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,184 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,524 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,016 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,422 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,766 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,698 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,648 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,158 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,312 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,457 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,996 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,691 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,404 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,276 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,200 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,493 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,437 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,882 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,850 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,403 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,057 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,343 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,888 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,055 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,629 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,439 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,691 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,258 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,576 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,575 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,642 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,534 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,344 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,618 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,133 | 14.9 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,666 | 21.6 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,727 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,028 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,215 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,336 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,886 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,192 | 14.4 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,067 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,705 | 21.0 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,462 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,586 | 23.3 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,873 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,410 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,778 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,661 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,491 | 27.4 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,220 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,521 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,001 | 49.2 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,590 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,674 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,344 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,855 | 19.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,517 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,526 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 16 | #771 | 71.8 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,136 | 37.6 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,166 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,292 | 31.5 |
| 1888 | 10 | #874 | 56.0 |
| 1886 | 10 | #755 | 69.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Manuelita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Manuelita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Manuelita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manuelita, and how old are they?
An estimated 376 Americans named Manuelita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 53 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 607 people named Manuelita (605 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 445 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above 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).
Where are babies named Manuelita born?
The states with the most babies named Manuelita are New Mexico, Texas and Arizona, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico and Arizona are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 279 | not ranked | 57.4× |
| Texas | 107 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Manuelita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Manuelita is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 57.4 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 Manuelita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Manuelita
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 Manuelita and names like it
- Compare Manuelita and NetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sManuelita peaked in 1922.
- New Mexico’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Manuelita since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Manuelita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Manuelita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Manuelita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.