Mañica

loc · Latin script

Mañica is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

  • BRBrazil≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 100K
  • MXMexico≈1 in 470Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 people, est.

Record sources
87 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Manica in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, US United States and 4 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)
recorded in Portuguese

do lat. manica, 'manga'; também membro/comandante de tropa

Cited for this meaning 2

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mañica 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.

Where Mañica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil≈2,900 est.≈1 in 74K353Manica87
IT Italy≈1,400 est.≈1 in 41KlistedManica17
MX Mexico≈280 est.≈1 in 465K—Manica31
US United States2011 in 1.7M221Manica34
AO Angola≈150 est.≈1 in 246K—Manica4
PT Portugal≈79 est.≈1 in 135K—Manica20
UY Uruguay341 in 100K34Manica3

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Mañica is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Manica, Maniça, Mânica, Manică

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mañica under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Mañica have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Mañica in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manica.
How common is the name Mañica?
In the United States, the national register counted 201 people named Mañica in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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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, “Mañica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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