Manille
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The second-highest trump in certain card games
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Manille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 35Kas Manila(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 178Kas Manila
- ALAlbania1 in 237Kas Manila
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 Manille 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Manila, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est., as Manila
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Manila in IT Italy.
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)
The second-highest trump in certain card games.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Manille is read(measured from records)
Manille is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French76%
Le mot manille désigne trois « choses » : l’un des meilleurs cordages du monde, un gros cigare et un chapeau fait d’une paille particulière. Tous trois sont fabriqués à Manille. Par contre, le nom du jeu vient de l’espagnol malilla qui désigne une carte qui a une valeur équivalente à l’as des jeux français et, par conséquent, le nom d’un jeu de cartes.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- English17%
The second-highest trump in certain card games.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Manille in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manille 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 16 | Manila | 64 |
| US United States | 286as Manila | 1 in 1.2M | 334 | — | 61 |
| FR France | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Manille | 70 |
| CA Canada | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 931K | 1 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 33as Manila | 1 in 178K | 33 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 19as Manila | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 13as Manila | 1 in 237K | 13 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1as Manila | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Manille 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 Finnish, allative singular of mani
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Manille mean, and where does it come from?
- The second-highest trump in certain card games. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Manille a male or female name?
- Manille is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Manille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Manila in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Manille?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286 people named Manila in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manilleThe 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, “Manille”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.