Masculine dossier · first seen 1910

Manual

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Manual
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1928

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1910Peak 19282024

Peak year

1928

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,021

Manual has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1928, when 23 boys were named Manual.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,021 Americans have been named Manual and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1910.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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