Mānuel
surname · Latin script
Mānuel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish and Portuguese, short for Emanuel.
- ECEcuador1 in 92(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 95
- CRCosta Rica1 in 296
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92 (inferred from the name graph)
525,628 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Manuel in ES Spain, US United States, EC Ecuador and 1 more.
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 Spanish and Portuguese, short for Emanuel.
Cited for this meaning 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mānuel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 525,628 | 1 in 95 | 553K | Manuel | 40 |
| US United States | — | 240,816 | 1 in 1.4K | 240K | Manuel | 79 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 183,513 | 1 in 92 | 184K | Manuel | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 172,986 | 1 in 1.2K | 254K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 17,226 | 1 in 296 | 17K | — | — |
| AX Åland Islands | #387 | — | — | — | Manuel | 5 |
525,628 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mānuel mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish and Portuguese, short for Emanuel. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 8 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Mānuel?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 526 thousand people named Mānuel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manuel. After it come United States, Ecuador, Brazil and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mānuel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mānuel is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 92 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mānuel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 525,628 people named Mānuel, about 1 in 95 residents.
- How common is Mānuel compared with other names?
- In Åland Islands, Mānuel is the 387th most common given name of 831 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C4%81nuelThe 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, “Mānuel” — the 387th most common given name in Åland Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.