Mansa

Peak · boys
2020 · 33 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
322
since 1970

Mansa over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Mansa has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#4,05026
2024#4,70121
2023#3,41634
2022#4,30324
2021#3,49732
2020#3,34433
2019#4,33723
2018#3,44632
2017#3,99326
2016#4,94319
2015#12,0865
2014#8,1309
2013#9,6557
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five boys were named Mansa! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1971–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Mansa is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Mansa in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Mansa
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 651 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #4,050)
  • 706 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #4,050)
  • 8,036 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #4,050)
Rise & fade · boys
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2020 at #3,344 (33 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 50,311
  • Highest: 1 in 50,311 boys born in 2023 were named Mansa (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 65,695 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,344 in 2020, was only 1 in 52,305 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 52.8% of all boys named Mansa (170) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s25#4,230 (1970)#4,738
1980s0——
1990s0——
2000s6#9,581 (2003)#9,581
2010s121#3,446 (2018)#6,656
2020s170#3,344 (2020)#3,885

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

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