How rare is the name Manisha?

4,302 people in the United States have the first name Manisha, about 1 in 70,207. It ranks #4,371 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MANISHA

#4,371

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,302
About
1 in 70,207
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,302 people named Manisha, 90.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 4.5% as Black and 1.9% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Manisha peaked in 1994, when 33 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19692024
Peak year
1994
Births that year
33
In 2024
5 ▼85%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 872 babies have been given the name since 1969. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Manisha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #5,880. The largest share of babies named Manisha, 44.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#16,2136
1970s#5,997167
1980s#5,880225
1990s#6,500269
2000s#12,926141
2010s#22,49259
2020s#39,3255
Generation X 1965–8022.2%
Millennials 1981–9644.6%
Generation Z 1997–1228.8%
2013 and later4.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Manisha

1 other first name also has 4,302 people.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Manisha, most common first.

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