Mande
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mande is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First day.
- INIndia1 in 3.8Kas Munda(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.7Kas Munda
- USUnited States1 in 35Kas Mundy
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 Mande 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #966 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
346,177 named Munda
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Munda in IN India, SI Slovenia, ZM Zambia and 2 more, Mandi in PK Pakistan, Mandee in US United States and Manda in SE Sweden.
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)
First day.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mande 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #155 | 346,177as Munda | 1 in 3.8K | 346K | Munda | 126 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 1 | Mandi | 13 |
| ZM Zambia | #889 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 9 | Munda | 25 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Munda | 37 |
| US United States | — | 9,439as Mundy | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Mandee | 202 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Munda | 21 |
| NP Nepal | — | 3,589as Munda | 1 in 8.4K | 3.6K | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 573as Munda | 1 in 3.7K | 573 | Munda | 6 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 396 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 11 | 1 in 928K | 375 | Manda | 7 |
346,177 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Mande 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 enm, alternative form of maunde (“washing of feet”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Used as a polite invitation for a person to state what they need, want, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A branch of Niger-Congo languages, spoken mostly in West Africa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of mandō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, first-person singular present subjunctive of mandar
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)
- Josef Mandeb. 1884CZHolocaust victim (born 1884)
- Joe Mandeb. 1983USAmerican comedian, writer and actor
- Abdallah Kibet Mandeb. 1995Ugandan long-distance runner
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 36 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.9K | #2,058 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 713 | #7,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 279 | #74,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 210 | #88,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 141 | #114,852 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #38,239 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mande mean, and where does it come from?
- First day. Recorded by The African book of names.
- In which country does Mande have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 346 thousand people named Munda, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mande?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 11 people named Mande, about 1 in 928 thousand residents.
- How common is Mande compared with other names?
- In India, Mande is the 155th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mandeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mande” — the 155th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.