Mannie

Where Mannie comes from

Aphetic diminutive with -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mannie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #866 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #597
    12 babies named Mannie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1932
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1939
    Mannie Jackson born
    American basketball player and executive
  6. 1971
    Mannie Heymans born
    Namibian cyclist
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Emmanuel.
Namesakes
  • Mannie Heymans · Namibian cyclist, born 1971
  • Mannie Jackson · American basketball player and executive, born 1939

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.