# Manuela (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/manuela/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,068 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 35 / 11,033 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 320, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 73 | 2,502 |
| 2012 | 62 | 2,824 |
| 2013 | 57 | 2,961 |
| 2014 | 81 | 2,301 |
| 2015 | 63 | 2,800 |
| 2016 | 67 | 2,636 |
| 2017 | 77 | 2,374 |
| 2018 | 86 | 2,184 |
| 2019 | 69 | 2,555 |
| 2020 | 93 | 2,018 |
| 2021 | 76 | 2,378 |
| 2022 | 84 | 2,243 |
| 2023 | 72 | 2,484 |
| 2024 | 92 | 2,092 |
| 2025 | 68 | 2,573 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 6 | 4,020 |
| 1927 | 5 | 4,569 |
| 1928 | 6 | 3,981 |
| 1930 | 6 | 3,854 |
| 1931 | 7 | 3,290 |
| 1932 | 5 | 4,100 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 2,025 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,798 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2,195 |
| 2016 | 12 | 2,233 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,681 |
| 2018 | 21 | 1,490 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,040 |
| 2020 | 12 | 2,163 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |
| 2025 | 14 | 2,006 |

## People named Manuela

- Manuela Sáenz, Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine (1797-1856)
- Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian female tennis player
- Manuela Zinsberger, Austrian association football player
- Juana Manuela Gorriti, Argentine writer (1818–1892)
- Manuela d'Ávila, Brazilian politician and journalist
- Manuela Roka, Equatorial Guinean politician
- Manuela Henkel, cross-country skier
- Manuela Montebrun, French athlete
- Manuela Groß, East German pair skater
- Manuela Mager, East German pair skater
- Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen, French/Norwegian jurist and politician
- Manuela Martelli, Chilean actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.