Manuella
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɐnuɛlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manuella is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 63rd most common given name.
- UYUruguay1 in 117K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 377as Manuela
- PTPortugal≈1 in 447as Manuela
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Manuella itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
178,058 named Manuela, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Manuela in BR Brazil, ES Spain, PE Peru and 6 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manuella 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #426 | 178,058as Manuela | 1 in 1.2K | 178K | Manuela | 174 |
| ES Spain | #109 | 132,788as Manuela | 1 in 377 | 137K | Manuela | 182 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 910 | 33 | Manuela | 118 |
| CO Colombia | #165 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 8 | Manuela | 145 |
| PE Peru | #261 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Manuela | 54 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | 5K | Manuella | 10 |
| PT Portugal | #75 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 447 | listed | Manuela | 142 |
| AO Angola | #63 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Manuela | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | #474 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 778 | 18 | Manuela | 54 |
| UY Uruguay | #90 | 29 | 1 in 117K | 29 | Manuela | 58 |
178,058 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Manuella is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, bar, rod
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)
- Odette Barenceyb. 1893FRnot in their usual nameactress (1893–1981)
- Manuella Kalilib. 1912USAmerican swimmer (1912–1969)
- Alexia Grindab. 1967FRnot in their usual nameillegitimate daughter of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
- Manuella Mauryb. 1971CHSwiss journalist and news presenter
- Manuella Senecautb. 1972BEBelgian politician
- Manuella Glonb. 1984FRcyclist
- Manuella Ollob. 1985CIIvorian businessperson
- Manuella Lyriob. 1989BRBrazilian swimmer
- Manuella Dos Reisb. 1999FRFrench handball player
- Manuella G. VincterCACanadian professor of particle physics
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 36 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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)
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
- How do you pronounce Manuella?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐnuɛlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Manuella a male or female name?
- Manuella is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Manuella have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 178 thousand people named Manuela, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Manuella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Manuella is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Manuella?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 29 people named Manuella, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Manuella compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Manuella is the 426th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Manuella?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manuellaThe 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, “Manuella” — the 426th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.