Meaning not yet researched.
Manuela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 68 in 2025. Its best rank was #486 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #486 in 1920; #2,573 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Manuela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,573 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #486.
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Manuela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 68 girls in 2025. Peak: #486 in 1920 · most girls in one year: 202 (1924).
In 2025, 68 US girls were named Manuela, making it the 2,573rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 481 places from #2,092 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 92 girls named Manuela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #486, reached in 1920. The most girls given the name in a single year was 202, in 1924. For comparison, it was #2,800 in 2015 and #773 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Manuela in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 5 babies with the name. In all, 11,068 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,912 babies named Manuela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 784 US girls were named Manuela; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Manuela ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #848 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emmanuella (1,438 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Manuella, Emanuela and Manila are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Manuella (642), Emanuela (624), Manila (214), Manilla (124), Manola (52), Manyla (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Manuela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 6 | #848 | #920 |
| Florida | 16 | #984 | #821 |
| California | 6 | #2,980 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,624 | #3,132 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,659 | — | — |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1969 | 68 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1968 | 73 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1962 | 77 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1960 | 71 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1958 | 79 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1957 | 89 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1956 | 73 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1954 | 74 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1953 | 105 | #923 | — | — |
| 1952 | 76 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1950 | 125 | #773 | — | — |
| 1949 | 110 | #844 | — | — |
| 1948 | 145 | #693 | — | — |
| 1947 | 124 | #773 | — | — |
| 1946 | 118 | #755 | — | — |
| 1945 | 111 | #710 | — | — |
| 1944 | 107 | #736 | — | — |
| 1943 | 100 | #781 | — | — |
| 1942 | 92 | #796 | — | — |
| 1941 | 94 | #732 | — | — |
| 1940 | 86 | #747 | — | — |
| 1939 | 94 | #703 | — | — |
| 1938 | 92 | #716 | — | — |
| 1937 | 102 | #676 | — | — |
| 1936 | 104 | #650 | — | — |
| 1935 | 100 | #660 | — | — |
| 1934 | 103 | #662 | — | — |
| 1933 | 132 | #555 | — | — |
| 1932 | 120 | #600 | 5 | #4,100 |
| 1931 | 136 | #564 | 7 | #3,290 |
| 1930 | 156 | #544 | 6 | #3,854 |
| 1929 | 173 | #515 | — | — |
| 1928 | 192 | #501 | 6 | #3,981 |
| 1927 | 191 | #508 | 5 | #4,569 |
| 1926 | 190 | #506 | 6 | #4,020 |
| 1925 | 197 | #503 | — | — |
| 1924 | 202 | #491 | — | — |
| 1923 | 169 | #556 | — | — |
| 1922 | 184 | #517 | — | — |
| 1921 | 197 | #502 | — | — |
| 1920 | 200 | #486 | — | — |
| 1919 | 158 | #550 | — | — |
| 1918 | 151 | #584 | — | — |
| 1917 | 104 | #669 | — | — |
| 1916 | 122 | #612 | — | — |
| 1915 | 111 | #624 | — | — |
| 1914 | 89 | #606 | — | — |
| 1913 | 76 | #593 | — | — |
| 1912 | 71 | #573 | — | — |
| 1911 | 56 | #578 | — | — |
| 1910 | 61 | #525 | — | — |
| 1909 | 58 | #491 | — | — |
| 1908 | 38 | #624 | — | — |
| 1907 | 43 | #560 | — | — |
| 1906 | 43 | #535 | — | — |
| 1905 | 37 | #576 | — | — |
| 1904 | 32 | #606 | — | — |
| 1903 | 29 | #621 | — | — |
| 1902 | 24 | #707 | — | — |
| 1901 | 23 | #676 | — | — |
| 1900 | 41 | #528 | — | — |
| 1899 | 25 | #624 | — | — |
| 1898 | 21 | #738 | — | — |
| 1897 | 16 | #814 | — | — |
| 1896 | 18 | #778 | — | — |
| 1895 | 20 | #717 | — | — |
| 1894 | 14 | #834 | — | — |
| 1893 | 15 | #782 | — | — |
| 1892 | 15 | #784 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1890 | 13 | #780 | — | — |
| 1889 | 8 | #999 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #912 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #960 | — | — |
| 1885 | 9 | #780 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #713 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #736 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #716 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #723 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #901 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).