Manila

Where Manila comes from

Manila hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1897
    First appearance
    #1,263 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #305
    104 babies named Manila — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #507.
  4. 1977
    Manila Nazzaro born
    Italian actress and model
  5. 2006
    Manila Esposito born
    Italian gymnast
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Manila Esposito · Italian gymnast, born 2006
  • Manila Nazzaro · Italian actress and model, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.