Manning

Where Manning comes from

Manning hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #653
    #653 among boys with 8 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1915
    Manning Clark born
    Australian historian
  4. 1950
    Manning Marable born
    American professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Manning Marable · American professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer, 1950–2011
  • Manning Clark · Australian historian, 1915–1991
  • Manning Galloway · American boxer, born 1960
  • Manning Johnson · American writer, 1908–1959
  • Manning Force · Union Army general United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, 1824–1899

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.