Manya
Manya was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,250 among girls’ names; 1,024 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Manya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Manya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Manya is “a transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name diminutive Маня (Manja)”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Manya?
#9,250 among girls’ names, 2025
Manya fell from #5,402 in 2015 to #9,250 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 6.8 per million.
41 babies in 2012, the peak
Manya peaked in 2012, when 41 girls were given it, #3,831 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,250 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,560 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,068 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,338 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,787 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,745 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,001 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,620 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,438 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,106 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,402 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,116 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,426 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,831 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,482 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,005 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,764 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,146 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,627 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,326 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,326 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,320 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,784 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,123 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,577 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,083 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,082 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,479 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,839 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,831 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,299 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,211 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,469 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,390 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,103 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,657 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,844 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,822 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,162 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,071 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,479 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,604 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,850 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,308 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,936 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,395 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,610 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,540 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,495 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,203 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,104 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,012 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,419 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,241 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,097 | 15.9 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,344 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,505 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,659 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,766 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,130 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,963 | 15.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,292 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,653 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,581 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,722 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,458 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,907 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,563 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,999 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,390 | 6.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,707 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,669 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,640 | 4.8 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,401 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Manya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Manya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Manya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Manya, and how old are they?
An estimated 941 Americans named Manya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,259 people named Manya (1,245 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 891 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,694 babies since 1880, Manya is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 157 babies (7.0%), the fifth 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 Manya
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 Manya and names like it
- Compare Manya and ManhaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sManya peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Manya since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Manya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Manya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.