Manda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a derivative of the female personal name Magdalena (see Maudlin).
- INIndia1 in 3.8Kas Munda(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.7Kas Munda
- USUnited States1 in 35Kas Mundy
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. 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)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
346,177 named Munda
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
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 and Mandee in US United States.
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).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 1 | Mandi | 13 |
| ZM Zambia | #889 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 9 | Munda | 25 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Munda | 37 |
| US United States | — | 9,439as Mundy | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Mandee | 202 |
| 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 | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 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 Björlingb. 1876SESwedish actress
- Manda Parentb. 1907CACanadian humorist (1907-1992)
- Manda Jagannadhamb. 1951INIndian politician
- Manda Scottb. 1962GBBritish writer
- Manda Krishna Madigab. 1965INIndian politician
- Manda Ophuisb. 1980NLDutch singer
- Manda Nilséniusb. 1994SESwedish singer
- Manda Vijay MhatreINIndian politician
- Manda Zand ErvinIRIranian activist
- Manda Aufochs GillespieCACanadian writer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 20K | #57 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 8.3K | #1,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 673 | #33,810 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 530 | #39,111 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 256 | #6,550 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 255 | #4,910 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 9 | #34 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 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.
- Is Manda a male or female name?
- Manda 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 Manda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 346 thousand people named Munda, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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.
- 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.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mandaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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 2026-10-10.