Mando
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A mandatory, a sign or line that requires the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mændəʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mando is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 13K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A mandatory, a sign or line that requires the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mando is read(measured from records)
Mando is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic60%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mando in Arabic.
- English17%
A mandatory, a sign or line that requires the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish7.8%
command
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mando 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #290 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Mando | 36 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | Mando | 13 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Mando | 19 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | — | 3 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Mando | 21 |
| US United States | — | 287 | 1 in 1.2M | 357 | Mando | 121 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Mando | 6 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the ph-wiktionary-names register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mando is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, the earth as the favourite wife of God, and universal mother
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Portuguese, command; order (demand for someone to do something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of mandare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, first-person singular present indicative of mandar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alfred F. Mandob. 1846USMusic teacher
- Eugène Mandob. 1855FRFrench politician
- Abdullah Mandob. 1971SYassociation football player
- Michael Mandob. 1981CACanadian actor
- Friso Mandob. 1990SRSurinamese footballer
- Henkie Tb. 1994NLnot in their usual nameSurinamese-Dutch rapper
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 357 | #25,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #25,678 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mando mean, and where does it come from?
- A mandatory, a sign or line that requires the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mando?
- A machine transcription gives /mændəʊ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Mando have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Mando in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mando.
- How common is the name Mando?
- In the United States, the national register counted 287 people named Mando in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Mando compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Mando is the 290th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mandoThe 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, “Mando” — the 290th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.