Mani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Central African/Congolese: title meaning 'lord' or 'king'; also a Congolese male name meaning 'from the mountain'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.6K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 7.4K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Central African/Congolese: title meaning 'lord' or 'king'; also a Congolese male name meaning 'from the mountain'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Mani | 42 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Mani | 65 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Mani | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Mani | 26 |
| SG Singapore | #283 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Mani | 47 |
| US United States | — | 1,888 | 1 in 176K | 3K | Mani | 274 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 12 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 289 | 1 in 1.2K | 289 | — | — |
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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Mani 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.
, occasionally 2 Sanskrit: ‘jewel’; also used to denote the phallus. The name carries magical or mystical connotations. It is often used as a short form of Subrahmanya, son of Shiva and brother of Ganesh.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Indian (Kerala)r among Christians from Kerala, a pet form of Emmanuel. It is only a given name in Kerala, but in the U.S. used as a family name among people from Kerala.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
acronym/toponym; Elijah ben Suleiman Mani, rabbi in Iraq
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
He came from the mountain
as a nameThe book of African names
Krsna (N); Visnu (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
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)
- Mani Madhava Chakyarb. 1899INIndian actor (1899–1990)
- Mani Kaulb. 1944INIndian film director of Hindi films (1944-2011)
- Mani Damodara Chakyarb. 1946INIndian actor
- Mani Ratnamb. 1955INIndian film director
- Mani Sharmab. 1964INIndian composer
- Mani Haghighib. 1969IRIranian film director, screenwriter and actor
- I. M. Vijayanb. 1969INnot in their usual nameIndian footballer
- Mani Soleymanloub. 1982CAactor, art director, theatrical director, stage actor and author
- Mani Liaqatb. 1984GBBritish actor and comedian
- Mani Hussainib. 1987NONorwegian politician
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 85 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #7,866 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 637 | #7,866 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 12 | #1,753 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Mani mean, and where does it come from?
- Central African/Congolese: title meaning 'lord' or 'king'; also a Congolese male name meaning 'from the mountain' Recorded by African Names.
- Is Mani a male or female name?
- Mani 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 Mani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Mani in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mani.
- Where is Mani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mani is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,888 people named Mani in 2020, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.
- How common is Mani compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Mani is the 283rd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maniThe 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, “Mani” — the 283rd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.