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How popular is the name Man?
Births per year, rank history and how many Mans are alive today.
Man (male) last appeared in the England and Wales name records in 2015 (ranked 4747th); fewer than three babies a year have been given the name since. This spelling of the name peaked in 2001, when 8 babies were given the name, the 1595th most popular that year. Man is one spelling of a name also recorded as Mann; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Man you are most likely to meet is around 26 years old - or else around 13: the name has two living generations. Half of all Mans born in England and Wales are between 12 and 30, and there are at least 140 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Man - on average, only one in every 2,165 such rooms contains a Man.
How many babies are named Man each year?
Includes all spellings: Man, Mann. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Man spelling rank?
Where does the Mann spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Man most popular?
Man peaked in 2001, when 8 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Man?
At least 140 people named Man in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Man?
Most living Mans are between 12 and 30; the most common age is about 26. There is a second cluster around 13.
Is Man becoming more or less popular?
It has faded from the rankings.