Man
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
Given to boys 58.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1884 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 207since 1884
Man over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | — | |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | — | |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | — | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
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| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | #5,942 | 8 | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,273 | 7 | |
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| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,421 | 6 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,440 | 5 | |
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| 1901 | — | #1,058 | 5 | |
| 1900 | — | #1,310 | 5 | |
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| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Man! It came in at #971, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1884–1909, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Man
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2020
- Debuted 1884
- Peaked 1884 at #971 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1884
- Highest: 1 in 21,293 boys born in 1901 were named Man (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 345,215 boys born in 2020 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #971 in 1884, was only 1 in 22,888 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.3% of all boys named Man (69) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2008, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #971 (1884) | #971 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 15 | #1,058 (1901) | #1,269 |
| 1910s | 39 | #1,421 (1910) | #2,634 |
| 1920s | 35 | #2,904 (1926) | #3,534 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,113 (1939) | #3,378 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 69 | #3,966 (1982) | #5,077 |
| 1990s | 13 | #5,942 (1991) | #7,321 |
| 2000s | 5 | #10,349 (2000) | #10,349 |
| 2010s | 5 | #12,246 (2017) | #12,246 |
| 2020s | 5 | #12,022 (2020) | #12,022 |
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.
Man in 1884
Top boys' names in 1884
More about 1884
boys
114,441 boys got a published name in 1884; 1 in 22,888 of them was named Man, which outranked 13.7% of the 1,125 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 41.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 154 names at #971; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.