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How popular is “Manuel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Manuel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Manuel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Manuel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Manuel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Manuel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Manuel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Manuel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 75 0.000372238 75 -100%
1881 57 0.000295815 57 -100%
1882 92 0.000415288 92 -100%
1883 74 0.000341099 74 -100%
1884 90 0.000369669 90 -100%
1885 90 0.00037367 90 -100%
1886 70 0.00027417 70 -100%
1887 72 0.000291036 72 -100%
1888 101 0.000337258 101 -100%
1889 81 0.000280329 81 -100%
1890 96 0.000318513 96 -100%
1891 85 0.000296505 85 -100%
1892 96 0.000287104 96 -100%
1893 96 0.000295182 96 -100%
1894 99 0.000292303 99 -100%
1895 98 0.000279186 98 -100%
1896 104 0.000290922 104 -100%
1897 86 0.000247869 86 -100%
1898 95 0.000249046 95 -100%
1899 97 0.000285938 97 -100%
1900 174 0.000386445 174 -100%
1901 150 0.000433762 150 -100%
1902 118 0.00030512 118 -100%
1903 151 0.000396118 151 -100%
1904 149 0.000369283 149 -100%
1905 157 0.000370351 157 -100%
1906 205 0.000478468 205 -100%
1907 184 0.000395367 184 -100%
1908 220 0.000450221 220 -100%
1909 243 0.00047533 243 -100%
1910 288 0.000487548 288 -100%
1911 340 0.000527723 340 -100%
1912 469 0.000474667 469 -100%
1913 624 0.00054876 624 -100%
1914 794 0.000560598 794 -100%
1915 976 0.000532627 976 -100%
1916 1056 0.000545901 7 1049 -99%
1917 1158 0.000577052 1158 -100%
1918 1321 0.000608444 9 1312 -99%
1919 1370 0.000649214 9 1361 -99%
1920 1476 0.000652334 16 1460 -98%
1921 1561 0.000668664 5 1556 -99%
1922 1471 0.000642595 10 1461 -99%
1923 1557 0.000676227 12 1545 -98%
1924 1675 0.000703306 11 1664 -99%
1925 1566 0.000671152 13 1553 -98%
1926 1563 0.000680777 14 1549 -98%
1927 1612 0.00069502 9 1603 -99%
1928 1665 0.00073642 19 1646 -98%
1929 1641 0.000748576 15 1626 -98%
1930 1530 0.00068817 10 1520 -99%
1931 1326 0.000630112 14 1312 -98%
1932 1327 0.000628525 9 1318 -99%
1933 1202 0.000601166 13 1189 -98%
1934 1272 0.000612476 20 1252 -97%
1935 1164 0.000556964 16 1148 -97%
1936 1187 0.000571338 14 1173 -98%
1937 1141 0.000535512 10 1131 -98%
1938 1150 0.000519757 6 1144 -99%
1939 1152 0.000522818 9 1143 -98%
1940 1179 0.000512011 9 1170 -98%
1941 1127 0.000462563 7 1120 -99%
1942 1280 0.000468552 6 1274 -99%
1943 1445 0.000511947 15 1430 -98%
1944 1408 0.000523405 8 1400 -99%
1945 1399 0.000527345 10 1389 -99%
1946 1501 0.000469751 10 1491 -99%
1947 1690 0.000469142 12 1678 -99%
1948 1601 0.00046372 10 1591 -99%
1949 1653 0.000474349 10 1643 -99%
1950 1581 0.000451281 1581 -100%
1951 1659 0.000450358 16 1643 -98%
1952 1673 0.000440494 12 1661 -99%
1953 1582 0.000410521 6 1576 -99%
1954 1698 0.000426557 13 1685 -98%
1955 1676 0.000417426 5 1671 -99%
1956 1634 0.00039631 16 1618 -98%
1957 1642 0.000390753 9 1633 -99%
1958 1667 0.000403251 8 1659 -99%
1959 1661 0.000399472 13 1648 -98%
1960 1686 0.000405892 13 1673 -98%
1961 1680 0.000405572 14 1666 -98%
1962 1573 0.000389803 11 1562 -99%
1963 1634 0.000412814 18 1616 -98%
1964 1644 0.000422882 8 1636 -99%
1965 1515 0.000417879 13 1502 -98%
1966 1544 0.000444233 10 1534 -99%
1967 1590 0.00046835 14 1576 -98%
1968 1606 0.000475371 8 1598 -99%
1969 1694 0.000487437 19 1675 -98%
1970 1711 0.000474419 16 1695 -98%
1971 1701 0.000495578 13 1688 -98%
1972 1721 0.000547567 17 1704 -98%
1973 1731 0.00057377 21 1710 -98%
1974 1779 0.000585198 13 1766 -99%
1975 1823 0.000603764 24 1799 -97%
1976 1866 0.000614969 28 1838 -97%
1977 1767 0.000556274 28 1739 -97%
1978 1870 0.000589186 21 1849 -98%
1979 1936 0.000581906 27 1909 -97%
1980 1916 0.000556248 13 1903 -99%
1981 1985 0.000573803 23 1962 -98%
1982 2067 0.000589231 13 2054 -99%
1983 1894 0.000546871 25 1869 -97%
1984 1866 0.000534861 17 1849 -98%
1985 1998 0.000559803 23 1975 -98%
1986 1979 0.000556356 18 1961 -98%
1987 2103 0.000583257 19 2084 -98%
1988 2136 0.000578072 17 2119 -98%
1989 2234 0.000581098 27 2207 -98%
1990 2406 0.000608732 16 2390 -99%
1991 2519 0.000646683 21 2498 -98%
1992 2604 0.0006779 19 2585 -99%
1993 2446 0.000648758 13 2433 -99%
1994 2485 0.000668432 21 2464 -98%
1995 2377 0.000649071 11 2366 -99%
1996 2419 0.000663249 9 2410 -99%
1997 2330 0.000642626 7 2323 -99%
1998 2359 0.000641345 8 2351 -99%
1999 2361 0.000639168 7 2354 -99%
2000 2435 0.000644196 9 2426 -99%
2001 2311 0.000617355 2311 -100%
2002 2334 0.000624349 8 2326 -99%
2003 2248 0.000591218 2248 -100%
2004 2410 0.000630738 2410 -100%
2005 2665 0.000693136 2665 -100%
2006 2554 0.000645571 8 2546 -99%
2007 2413 0.0006036 2413 -100%
2008 2143 0.0005452 2143 -100%
2009 1954 0.000511495 1954 -100%
2010 1701 0.00046026 1701 -100%
2011 1559 0.000426213 1559 -100%
2012 1464 0.000400288 1464 -100%
2013 1472 0.000403767 1472 -100%
2014 1382 0.000372871 1382 -100%
2015 1297 0.000350454 1297 -100%
2016 1301 0.000354622 1301 -100%
2017 1327 0.000371065 1327 -100%
2018 1218 0.000346427 1218 -100%
2019 1147 0.000330459 1147 -100%
2020 1018 0.000304738 1018 -100%
2021 1036 0.00030579 1036 -100%
2022 1069 0.000315979 5 1064 -99%
2023 1008 0.000304422 1008 -100%
2024 954 0.000286616 954 -100%

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