Manika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: highly honoured and esteemed
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mənɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 84as Monika(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 102as Monika
- HUHungary1 in 160as Mónika
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 Manika 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- #141 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)
376,774 named Monika, 2026
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Monika
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Monika in DE Germany, PL Poland, CZ Czechia and 1 more, Monica in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and Monique in LT Lithuania.
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)
highly honoured and esteemed
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manika 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #27 | 376,774as Monika | 1 in 102 | 377K | Monika | 239 |
| DE Germany | #42 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 301 | 1 | Monika | 271 |
| US United States | #174 | 264,966as Monica | 1 in 1.3K | 265K | Monica | 593 |
| AR Argentina | #72 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 214 | 152 | Monica | 149 |
| BR Brazil | #151 | 190,977as Monica | 1 in 1.1K | 204K | Monica | 218 |
| CZ Czechia | #41 | 127,714as Monika | 1 in 84 | 128K | Monika | 162 |
| HU Hungary | #61 | 61,103as Mónika | 1 in 160 | 61K | Monika | 157 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 221 | 19K | Monique | 6 |
376,774 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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; RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Registrų centras — top-50 given names. 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)
Manika is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
jewel; gem
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Kinyarwanda, hang up, suspend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, dorade box
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, Red. Long grain
as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary
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.
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 423 | #23,042 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #9,098 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 7 | #9,099 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #23,042 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #56,801 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #5,808 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2013 | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Manika mean, and where does it come from?
- highly honoured and esteemed Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Manika?
- A machine transcription gives /mənɪkə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Manika a male or female name?
- Manika is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Manika have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 377 thousand people named Monika, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Manika most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Manika itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 84 people named Monika.
- How common is the name Manika?
- In Poland, the national register counted 376,774 people named Monika in 2026, about 1 in 102 residents.
- How common is Manika compared with other names?
- In Poland, Manika is the 27th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Manika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manikaThe 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, “Manika” — the 27th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.