Man-Wai
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Man-Wai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 607K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 25M
- CACanada≈1 in 34M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 607K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, 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 Manwai in HK Hong Kong, US United States, GB United Kingdom 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Man-Wai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 607K | — | ManWai | 9 |
| US United States | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 53M | — | ManWai | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 25M | listed | ManWai | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 34M | — | Man-Wai | 4 |
| TW Taiwan | — | — | — | ManWai | 6 |
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: the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vivian Kong Man-waib. 1994CNnot in their usual namemember of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong female politician, and ex-Hong Kong female fencer
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 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2006 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Man-Wai a male or female name?
- Man-Wai 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 Man-Wai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 people named Man-Wai in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ManWai.
- How common is the name Man-Wai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 people in Hong Kong have Man-Wai as their first given name, about 1 in 607 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Man-Wai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/man-waiThe 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, “Man-Wai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.