Man
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OE mann ‘man’; first attested Man 1066 DB (Yorkshire, Suffolk)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Man is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 167(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2K
- SESweden1 in 477as Mona
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 Man 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 534 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 167 (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 named মন, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mann in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 2 more and মন in BD Bangladesh.
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)
from OE mann ‘man’; first attested Man 1066 DB (Yorkshire, Suffolk)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Man 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #409 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 1 | মন | 62 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Man | 55 |
| HK Hong Kong | #149 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 167 | — | Man | 39 |
| US United States | — | 37,167as Mona | 1 in 8.9K | 84K | Mann | 534 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21,386as Mona | 1 in 477 | 21K | Mann | 49 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Mann | 51 |
| NO Norway | — | 12,286as Mona | 1 in 445 | 41K | Mann | 25 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7,880as Mona | 1 in 745 | 7.9K | Mann | 54 |
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 2010; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Page provides top names for Bangladesh published by Students of the World.; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Man 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.
In German, Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs. ß nach Konsonant; 15+150 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
2. Chinese 1^; from a character in the personal name of Hu Gongman, a retainer of Wu Wang. After the latter established the Zhou dynasty in 1122 bc, he granted the state of Chen to Hu Gongman, whose descendants adopted the second character of his given name, Man, as their surname. This character also means ‘Manchurian’, but the name does not appear to be related to this meaning.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Jewish (Ashkenazic); from the personal name Man, derived from Yiddish ‘man’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
5. English and Jewish; variant spelling of Mann.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, An adult male human.
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)
- Han Yub. 768CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian, poet, philosopher and politician (768–824)
- Zhu Xib. 1130CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian, neo-Confucian philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty (1130–1200)
- Chōshō-inb. 1548JPnot in their usual nameconcubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu. mother of Yūki Hideyasu
- Sun Yat-senb. 1866CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
- Man Rayb. 1890USAmerican and French visual artist (1890–1976)
- Ip Manb. 1893CNHong Kong martial artist (1893–1972)
- Jiang Wenb. 1963CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor, screenwriter, and director
- Tong Wenb. 1983CNnot in their usual nameChinese judoka
- Cherrie Yingb. 1983TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-born Hong Kong actress
- Liang Wenfengb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese businessman (born 1985)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21K | #1,421 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #1,421 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 294 | #3,975 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 100 | #7,739 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 88 | #8,409 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 45 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 33 | #3,520 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #3,703 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Man mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE mann ‘man’; first attested Man 1066 DB (Yorkshire, Suffolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Man?
- A machine transcription gives /mæn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Man a male or female name?
- Man 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 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named মন in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Man?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,167 people named Mona in 2020, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Man compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Man is the 409th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Man?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manThe 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” — the 409th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.