Ma'N

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ma'N is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”).

rarermore common
  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 167(inferred from the name graph)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 2K
  • SESweden1 in 477as Mona

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 Ma'N 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.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈69,000 named মন, est.

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
534 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 167 (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MannLatin(measured from records)
মনBengali(measured from records)
만오Hangul(measured from records)
МонуCyrillic(measured from records)
మనTelugu(measured from records)
მაინაGeorgian(measured from records)
மீனTamil(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mann in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 2 more, Man in JP Japan, HK Hong Kong and মন in BD Bangladesh.

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)

Derivation of Ma'N: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ma'N
  1. Middle Englishman(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishmann(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*mann(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*mann-(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*mon-“human being“human being, man”(measured from records)

From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.

Sources 13

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Russian Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ma'N 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 Ma'N is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#409≈69,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K1মন62
JP Japan—≈44,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Man55
HK Hong Kong#149≈43,000 est.≈1 in 167—Man39
US United States—37,167as Mona1 in 8.9K84KMann534
SE Sweden—21,386as Mona1 in 47721KMann49
MY Malaysia—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Mann51
NO Norway—12,286as Mona1 in 44541KMann25
DK Denmark—7,880as Mona1 in 7457.9KMann54

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 2010; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Page provides top names for Bangladesh published by Students of the World.; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ma'N is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name91 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Man, Maen, Män, Ma'En, Màn

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mà'N

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Ma'N 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

What does the name Ma'N mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Russian Names and 11 other sources.
Is Ma'N a male or female name?
Ma'N 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 Ma'N have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named মন in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ma'N?
In the United States, the national register counted 37,167 people named Mona in 2020, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
How common is Ma'N compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Ma'N is the 409th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ma'N” — the 409th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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