Manly

Where Manly comes from

Manly 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #866
    5 babies named Manly — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1901
    Manly P. Hall born
    Canadian writer and mystic
  5. 1903
    Manly Wade Wellman born
    American writer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Manly P. Hall · Canadian writer and mystic, 1901–1990
  • Manly Wade Wellman · American writer, 1903–1986
  • Manly MacDonald · Canadian artist, 1889–1971
  • Manly Miles · American physiologist, 1826–1898

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.