Manha
Feminine · “spring”
Manha is a spring of water in Arabic — a source — and it also carries a sense of a gift given.
How old is the name Manha?
Manha first appears in US birth records in 2004 — 21 years ago. The typical Manha is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Manha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Manha most popular?
Manha peaked in 2023, reaching #1946 nationally. Today it ranks #2326, 380 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From manha to Manha
The story of Manha
The root behind Manha carries granting and bestowal, and South Asian naming reads it as a gift or a spring — the image of a source that gives freely. The name is chiefly used in Urdu and Bengali-speaking Muslim families. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
spring, source; gift
Generally from the Arabic manha, related to a root for granting or bestowing, and read as 'gift' or 'source of water'. The reading circulates widely in South Asian naming sources with limited classical documentation. The Arabic root is genuine; the precise sense is not fully settled.
How the name formed
- manha
- Manha
Related forms: منها · Manha · Manha
Pronouncing Manha
MAN-hah
Two syllables, stress on the first. The internal h is fully sounded in Arabic and Urdu.
Nicknames for Manha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2004
- Most girls named
- 2023101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1946reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +39.3%78 in 2025, from 56
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Manha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- منها in Arabic — transliteration
- Manha in Urdu — same name
- Manha in Bengali — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Minnesota, Texas.
Manhas among us
people named Manha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 20,606 born in 2025 was named Manha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Noami test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Manha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Noami climbed just as high around 1925, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Noami's path sketches the road Manha is walking now.
Manha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Manha is headed
Manha should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Manha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Manha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spring-and-gift reading is warm and concrete.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- It is genuinely distinctive in American use.
- The precise Arabic reading is not fully documented.
- The internal h is often swallowed by English speakers.
- It reads as specifically South Asian Muslim.
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Frequently asked
- How many Manhas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Manha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Manha in 2025?
- Manha ranks #2326 among US girl names in 2025, with 78 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Manha?
- About 1 in every 20,606 US girls born in 2025 was named Manha — 78 in all.
- Will my child share the name Manha with classmates?
- Manha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Manha
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