Manea
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Romanian: a type of folk music (often involving love songs) with originally Turkish and/or Middle Eastern influences
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/man̪ea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common surname.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 483K
- MDMoldova≈1 in 23K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a type of folk music (often involving love songs) with originally Turkish and/or Middle Eastern influences
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Manea is read(measured from records)
Manea is one spelling over 5 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.
- Romanian35%
a type of folk music (often involving love songs) with originally Turkish and/or Middle Eastern influences
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
MANEÁ, manele, s. f. Cântec de dragoste de origine orientală, cu melodie duioasă și tărăgănată.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
- English21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Manea in English.
- French8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Manea in French.
- Spanish7.6%
hobble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Manea in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Manea 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); e-services.md — living population register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Norman Maneab. 1936RORomanian writer
- Dumitru Maneab. 1948ROassociation football player (1948-2011)
- Nicolae Maneab. 1954ROfootballer and manager (1954-2014)
- Elham Maneab. 1966CHSwiss-American academic
- Alexandru Maneab. 1981chess player
- Silviu Maneab. 1983RORomanian ski mountaineer, mountain runner and mountain biker
- Oana Maneab. 1985RORomanian female handballer
- Rareș Maneab. 1986RORomanian endurance sports athlete
- Cristian Maneab. 1997RORomanian footballer
- Alin Maneab. 1997ROassociation football player
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.1K | #4,059 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.1K | #4,057 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 438 | #19,146 |
| YE Yemen | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #21 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Manea mean, and where does it come from?
- a type of folk music (often involving love songs) with originally Turkish and/or Middle Eastern influences Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Manea?
- A machine transcription gives /man̪ea/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Manea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Manea in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manea.
- How common is the name Manea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,101 people named Manea, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Manea compared with other names?
- In Romania, Manea is the 58th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maneaThe 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, “Manea” — the 58th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.