Manuela

Where Manuela comes from

The dictionaries list Manuela as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1797
    Manuela Sáenz born
    Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1920
    Peak, #486
    200 babies named Manuela — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #660.
  5. 1974
    Manuela Schwesig born
    German politician (SPD), Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Manuela Schwesig · German politician (SPD), Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, born 1974
  • Manuela Sáenz · Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine, 1797–1856
  • Manuela Maleeva · Bulgarian female tennis player, born 1967
  • Manuela Velasco · Spanish actress, born 1975
  • Manuela Carmena · Spanish judge and politician, mayor of Madrid, born 1944

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.