Manilla

Last seen for girls in 1937 at #4,255

Peak · girls
1898 · 35 births
Debut · girls
35 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
124
since 1898

Manilla over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Manilla has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201898peak #527, 1898girls
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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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1937#4,2555
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1928#3,1649
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1923#4,3766
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1921#4,0237
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1915#3,4347
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1903#1,5926
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1901#1,6795
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1899#98311
1898#52735
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First appearance
1898

The first year at least five girls were named Manilla! It came in at #527, and was given to 35 baby girls.


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

See more about Manilla
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1937
  • Biggest drop: 456 spots in 1899 (#527#983)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1898
  • Peaked 1898 at #527 (35 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 7,393
  • Highest: 1 in 7,393 girls born in 1898 were named Manilla (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 212,807 girls born in 1937 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 37.1% of all girls named Manilla (46) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s46#527 (1898)#755
1900s21#1,231 (1900)#1,501
1910s24#2,822 (1918)#3,502
1920s28#3,164 (1928)#3,990
1930s5#4,255 (1937)#4,255

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.

Manilla in 1898

girls
#527
35 births · 1 in 7,393 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. #527Manilla35
More about 1898

girls

258,769 girls got a published name in 1898; 1 in 7,393 of them was named Manilla, which outranked 73.3% 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 Manilla
  1. #520Lavinia36
  2. #520Loraine36
  3. #520Reva36
  4. #527Manilla35
  5. #527Adah35
  6. #527Belva35
  7. #527Berniece35
  8. #544Allene34
  9. #544Celestine34
  10. #544Eda34

Tied with 16 names at #527; 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