Mansur
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic mansur ‘victorious’, ‘triumphant’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mansə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mansur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 23rd most common given name.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 897(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 1.3K
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 1.6K
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 Mansur 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 897 (inferred from the name graph)
≈99,000 named Mansoor, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mansoor in US United States, PK Pakistan, AF Afghanistan and 1 more, Мансур in UZ Uzbekistan, TJ Tajikistan, Мансұр in KZ Kazakhstan and Manşur in TM Turkmenistan.
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 personal name based on Arabic mansur ‘victorious’, ‘triumphant’. This word is found in compound names such as Mansur-ud-Din ‘victorious in religion’. The second of the Abbasid khalifs was Al-Mansur Abu-Ja'far (c. 712-75), who built the city of Baghdad in 762 and is considered the real founder of the Abbasid khalifate.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mansur is read(measured from records)
Mansur is one spelling over 4 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.
- Hindi33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mansur in Hindi.
- Turkish13%
Tanrı’nın yardımıyla galip, üstün gelmiş.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English6.7%
city, Egypt
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Bangla6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mansur in Bangla.
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)
Mansur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #234 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 10 | Mansoor | 123 |
| NG Nigeria | #681 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Mansur | 59 |
| BD Bangladesh | #474 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Monsur | 60 |
| AF Afghanistan | #141 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1 | Mansoor | 31 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #79 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Мансур | 37 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #182 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 20K | Мансұр | 44 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #136 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 897 | listed | Мансур | 14 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #247 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Manşur | 8 |
| OM Oman | #23 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Mansoor | 42 |
| US United States | — | 1,375as Mansoor | 1 in 242K | 2K | Mansoor | 262 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mansur 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.
from a personal name based on Arabic mansur ‘victorious’, ‘triumphant’. This word is found in compound names such as Mansur-ud-Din ‘victorious in religion’. The second of the Abbasid khalifs was Al-Mansur Abu-Ja'far (c. 712-75), who built the city of Baghdad in 762 and is considered the real founder of the Abbasid khalifate.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Arabic, victor; aided to victory
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, victorious
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
helped; protected;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Al-Hallajb. 858IQnot in their usual namePersian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher (c.858–922)
- Abu Nasr Mansurb. 960IRPersian mathematician and astronomer (c. 960 – 1036)
- Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allahb. 985EGnot in their usual name6th Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021) and 16th Ismaili Imam
- Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allahb. 1096EGnot in their usual nameFatimid caliph and imam (1096–1130)
- Al-Rashidb. 1109IQnot in their usual nameAbbasid caliph in Baghdad (r. 1135–1136)
- Al-Mustansirb. 1192IQnot in their usual name36th and Penultimate Abbasid Caliph (r. 1226–1242)
- Mansur Yavaşb. 1955TRMayor of Ankara
- Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyanb. 1970AEnot in their usual nameVice President of the United Arab Emirates
- Mansour Jafari Mamaghanib. 1971IRnot in their usual nameIranian singer and actor
- Mansour Abbasb. 1974ILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli dentist and politician
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 68 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,025 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,699 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,400 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Where does the name Mansur come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic mansur ‘victorious’, ‘triumphant’. This word is found in compound names such as Mansur-ud-Din ‘victorious in religion’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Mansur?
- In the etymology graph, Mansoor and Mensur are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mansur?
- A machine transcription gives /mansə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mansur a male or female name?
- Mansur is a male 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.
- What does the name Mansur mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic mansur ‘victorious’, ‘triumphant’.
- In which country does Mansur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 99 thousand people named Mansoor in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mansur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,375 people named Mansoor in 2020, about 1 in 242 thousand residents.
- How common is Mansur compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Mansur is the 234th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mansurThe 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, “Mansur” — the 234th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.