Many
loc · Latin script
Meaning: dim. given name ending -k(e) + the Slav, possessive ending -in) acquired an excrescent -d as a result of folketymological association with Yid
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Many is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 233K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 116K
- FIFinland≈1 in 397K
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)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)
1,430 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dim. given name ending -k(e) + the Slav, possessive ending -in) acquired an excrescent -d as a result of folketymological association with Yid. kind child. Vars.: Susskind; Siskind; Zusskind, Zyskind, Zis(s)kind.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Many 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,430 | 1 in 233K | 1.2K | Many | 169 |
| FR France | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 590 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 913K | listed | Many | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 61 | 1 in 3.5M | 61 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Many | 30 |
| BE Belgium | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 518K | 68 | — | 9 |
| FI Finland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 397K | 10 | — | 1 |
1,430 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the de-munich-vornamen register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Many is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
probably of acronymic origin, but without detailed evi¬ dence from family histories it is impossible to specify the given name from which each is derived. Vars.: O’Brognan(e).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In French, habitational name from Masny in Nord or Many in Moselle.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, before a countable noun: A large, indefinite number of.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, sogbd, kpoto; many things, hani-kpoto
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Turkmen, meaning, sense
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Many Jostb. 1897DEGerman painter (1897-1992)
- Many Maurerb. 1964CHSwiss guitarist
- Many Essomba Alexandreb. 1991CMassociation football player
- Grégory Manyb. 1992FRFrench volleyball player
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 30 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #9,638 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 590 | #987 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 212 | #9,638 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 61 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #58,130 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 54 | #33,229 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,303 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #43,756 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Many come from?
- dim. given name ending -k(e) + the Slav, possessive ending -in) acquired an excrescent -d as a result of folketymological association with Yid. kind child. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Many mean?
- Recorded meaning: dim. given name ending -k(e) + the Slav, possessive ending -in) acquired an excrescent -d as a result of folketymological association with Yid.
- In which country does Many have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Many, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled many.
- How common is the name Many?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,430 people named Many in 2020, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manyThe 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, “Many”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.