Manila

Last seen for girls in 1944 at #4,574

Peak · girls
1898 · 104 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
214
since 1897

Manila over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Manila has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201898peak #305, 1898girls
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1944#4,5745
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First appearance
1897

The first year at least five girls were named Manila! It came in at #1,263, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1901–1902, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Manila is popular in 1898

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

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Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1944
  • Biggest jump: 958 spots in 1898 (#1,263 → #305)
  • Biggest drop: 724 spots in 1900 (#507 → #1,231)
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1897
  • Peaked 1898 at #305 (104 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1898–1899
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,488
  • Highest: 1 in 2,488 girls born in 1898 were named Manila (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 265,445 girls born in 1944 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 67.8% of all girls named Manila (145) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s145#305 (1898)#692
1900s25#1,137 (1903)#1,387
1910s17#3,817 (1919)#4,407
1920s12#4,028 (1925)#4,519
1930s0——
1940s15#4,349 (1940)#4,515

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Manila in 1898

girls
#305
104 births · 1 in 2,488 girls

Top girls' names in 1898

  1. #1Mary14,406
  2. #2Anna5,773
  3. #3Helen5,230
  4. #4Margaret4,696
  5. #5Ruth4,249
  6. #6Florence3,790
  7. #7Elizabeth3,659
  8. #8Ethel3,531
  9. #9Marie3,435
  10. #10Lillian3,061
  11. #305Manila104
More about 1898

girls

258,769 girls got a published name in 1898; 1 in 2,488 of them was named Manila, which outranked 84.6% of the 1,975 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Manila
  1. #300Wilhelmina106
  2. #303Catharine105
  3. #303Elnora105
  4. #305Manila104
  5. #305Dewey104
  6. #305Mina104
  7. #305Pansy104
  8. #310Claudia103
  9. #311Linda102
  10. #312Annette101

Tied with 4 names at #305; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1897
Risers
  1. ↑ 958Manila#1,263 → #305
  2. ↑ 889Ouida#1,555 → #666
  3. ↑ 858Ula#1,555 → #697
  4. ↑ 836Sofia#1,555 → #719
  5. ↑ 715Leonor#1,555 → #840
Fallers
  1. ↓ 833Vertie#867 → #1,700
  2. ↓ 821Fae#681 → #1,502
  3. ↓ 805Beda#895 → #1,700
  4. ↓ 805Nolia#895 → #1,700
  5. ↓ 769Azzie#931 → #1,700

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1898 →