Mäni
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mäni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: , occasionally 2 Sanskrit: ‘jewel’; also used to denote the phallus. The name carries magical or mystical connotations.
- USUnited States1 in 176K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 1.2K
- SESweden1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,888 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mani in US United States, SG Singapore.
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)
, occasionally 2 Sanskrit: ‘jewel’; also used to denote the phallus. The name carries magical or mystical connotations. It is often used as a short form of Subrahma- nya, son of Shiva and brother of Ganesh.
Sources 11
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mäni 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.
1,888 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Mäni 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 apb, entirely, altogether; precedes verb
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Mäni Weberb. 1935CHSwiss television presenter, journalist and radio host (1935-2006)
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 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Mäni mean, and where does it come from?
- , occasionally 2 Sanskrit: ‘jewel’; also used to denote the phallus. The name carries magical or mystical connotations. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and African Names and 9 other sources.
- Is Mäni a male or female name?
- Mäni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mäni have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Mäni, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mani.
- Where is Mäni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mäni is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mäni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,888 people named Mäni in 2020, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.
- How common is Mäni compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Mäni is the 887th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4niThe 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, “Mäni” — the 887th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.