Manak

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Czech (Manak); from the name for a man who was the son or husband of a woman called Marie, from a pet form of the female personal name Mdha, itself a pet form of Marie (see Maria)

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

Manak is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 12M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 981K
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

339 people, 2010

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 981K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Czech (Manak); from the name for a man who was the son or husband of a woman called Marie, from a pet form of the female personal name Mdha, itself a pet form of Marie (see Maria).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Manak 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 Manak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3391 in 981K340—55
IN India1131 in 12M113Manak80
ID Indonesia≈79 est.≈1 in 3.4M—Manak9
AR Argentina431 in 1.1M43——
NL Netherlands141 in 1.2M14—2
CZ Czechia11 in 11M1——

339 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Manak is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mañak, Maňák, Manák

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Mañak, Mãńãk, Manãk, Manák, Maňák

  • Slovak surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Maňák, Manák, Mâñák, Maňak

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mañak

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mañak

36 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Manak 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 Russian, Manak Mitliaev. Before 1556.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

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 20 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Manak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983156—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1982135—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1971135—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1981124—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1966124—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1973120—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1969114—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1989113—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1987112—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1990111—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1985111—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1976111—

Reference works 5

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 Manak mean, and where does it come from?
Czech (Manak); from the name for a man who was the son or husband of a woman called Marie, from a pet form of the female personal name Mdha, itself a pet form of Marie (see Maria). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Manak have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 339 people named Manak, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Manak most common?
Manak is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 981 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Manak?
In the United States, the national register counted 339 people named Manak in 2010, about 1 in 981 thousand 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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Manak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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