Manly is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Manly has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Manly. That means that a boy named Manly is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Manly.
Is the name Manly a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1881 – at that time, it landed at position 751 with 5 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Manly is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Manly, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Manly was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Manly born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Manly born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
Meeting a man or boy named Manly is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Manly can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Manly. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Manly living in one state or another. (If your name is Manly and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Manly is in North Carolina, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in North Carolina, only 0.00052% of all male residents are called Manly – that’s just one in 191,079! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 24 men going by that name. So, if your name is Manly, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Manly is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Manly and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Manly, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
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Lion
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Manly
Manly
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Manly sounds like this:
