Manda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a derivative of the female personal name Magdalena (see Maudlin)
Manda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ZMZambia≈1 in 4.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 12Kfew records
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 19Kfew records
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 Manda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #966 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
346,177 named Munda
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Munda in IN India, SI Slovenia, ZM Zambia and 1 more, Mandi in PK Pakistan, Mandee in US United States and Mande in NG Nigeria.
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 a derivative of the female personal name Magdalena (see Maudlin).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Manda is found
(measured from records)Manda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #155 | 346,177as Munda | 1 in 3.8K | 346K | Munda | 126 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Munda | 37 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Mandi | 13 |
| US United States | — | 9,439as Mundy | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Mandee | 202 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Mande | 13 |
| ZM Zambia | #889 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 9 | Munda | 25 |
| NP Nepal | — | 3,589as Munda | 1 in 8.4K | 3.6K | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 573as Munda | 1 in 3.7K | 573 | Munda | 6 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 396 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 256 | 1 in 42K | 256 | — | — |
346,177 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Manda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hindu (Brahman) name based on the name of a subgroup of Brahmans.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, a Dravidian language of southern India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, Swahili: island/place name; also Hausa 'medicinal salts'
as a nameAfrican Names
name for Saturn (god of the occult)
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Manda Parentb. 1907CACanadian humorist (1907-1992)
- Manda Scottb. 1962GBBritish writer
- Manda Nilséniusb. 1994SESwedish singer
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)Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Manda mean, and where does it come from?
- from a derivative of the female personal name Magdalena (see Maudlin). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Manda?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Lena and Magali are forms of the same name in other languages; Mandica is a recorded short or pet form.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Manda?
- In India, the national register counted about 346 thousand people named Munda, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, Pakistan, United States and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Manda?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 256 people named Manda, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Manda compared with other names?
- In India, Manda is the 155th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Manda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mandaThe 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, “Manda” — the 155th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.