Mañju

given name · Latin script

Meaning: An officer of Parakkamabāhu I (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H))

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mañju is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. Mañju is also written มีนุ้ย in Thai, 무니 in Korean (Hangul) and Маню in Cyrillic.

  • INIndia≈1 in 800(inferred from the name graph)
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 9.3Kfew records
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 11K

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 Mañju itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,800,000 people, est.

#650 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
477 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 797 (inferred from the name graph)

India, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Mañju in other scripts: Thai, Korean (Hangul), Cyrillic and 1 more

(measured from records)
MañjuLatin(measured from records)
มีนุ้ยMañju in Thai(measured from records)
무니Mañju in Korean (Hangul)(measured from records)
МанюMañju in Cyrillic(measured from records)
მანჯუMañju in Georgian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Manju in IN India, KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more and Mooney in US United States, ID Indonesia.

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)

An officer of Parakkamabāhu I. He was sent to fight against Sūkarabhātu, and defeated him at Sāpatagamu. He was put in charge of the campaign in Rohaṇa, his colleagues being Kitti and Bhūta. Mañju practised great cruelty in order to instil terror into the hearts of the people. He seems to have been replaced by Bhuta.’

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mañju 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 Mañju is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#58≈1,800,000 est.≈1 in 79723KManju217
BD Bangladesh—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 40K—Manju23
US United States—2,3231 in 143K34KMooney477
AE United Arab Emirates#736≈1,200 est.≈1 in 9.3K—Manju53
ID Indonesia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 242K—Mooney31
SA Saudi Arabia—≈910 est.≈1 in 39K—Manju20
KW Kuwait#558≈450 est.≈1 in 11K—Manju8

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)

Mañju is also recorded as 2 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 Manju, Mañjū, Manjū

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written மஞ்சு, മഞ്ജു, ಮಂಜು, Manchu, മഞജ

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)

Mañju 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 pi, charming; lovely

    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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mañju 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

Where does the name Mañju come from?
An officer of Parakkamabāhu I. He was sent to fight against Sūkarabhātu, and defeated him at Sāpatagamu. He was put in charge of the campaign in Rohaṇa, his colleagues being Kitti and Bhūta. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
Is Mañju a male or female name?
Mañju 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.
What does the name Mañju mean?
Recorded meaning: An officer of Parakkamabāhu I.
Which countries have the most people named Mañju?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Mañju in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manju. After it come Bangladesh, United States, United Arab Emirates and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Mañju?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,323 people named Mañju in 2020, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
How common is Mañju compared with other names?
In India, Mañju is the 58th most common given name of 3,760,348 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, “Mañju” — ranked 542nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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