Manū
surname · Latin script
Manū is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 2,111 people, counted by DVV. Recorded meaning: From English manager, associated with the given name Manu.
- FIFinland1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 92K
- SESweden1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,111 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Manu in US United States, FI Finland, ES Spain and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From English manager, associated with the given name Manu.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Manū counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | — | 2,111 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.5K | Manu | 29 |
| US United States | — | 1,906 | 1 in 175K | 1.6K | Manu | 252 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,189 | 1 in 178K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 544 | 1 in 92K | 544 | Manu | 72 |
| SE Sweden | — | 102 | 1 in 100K | 102 | — | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 41 | 1 in 143K | 41 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 16 | 1 in 131K | 18 | — | 1 |
| GH Ghana | #280 | — | — | — | Manu | 58 |
2,111 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Manū mean, and where does it come from?
- From English manager, associated with the given name Manu. Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H) and 6 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Manū?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Manū, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manu. After it come United States, Brazil, Spain and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Manū most common?
- Manū is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Manū?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,111 people named Manū, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Manū compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Manū is the 280th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Manū?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/man%C5%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Manū” — ranked 470th in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.