Manita
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 961K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 5.2K
- NLNetherlands1 in 65K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Munita in 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)
The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manita 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 2 | Manita | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Munita | 38 |
| US United States | 346 | 1 in 961K | 345 | Manita | 141 |
| PH Philippines | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Manita | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 266 | 1 in 65K | 266 | Manita | 24 |
| GH Ghana | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Manita | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Manita | 54 |
| PT Portugal | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Manita | 21 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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)
Manita 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.
masculine of मानिता
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
honoured; respected; known; understood
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Cebuano, the female participant of a manito manita
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, diminutive of mano, little hand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, girlfriend, chick
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)
- Manita Devkotab. 1995NPNepalese health care worker who is Miss Nepal Universe 2018
- Manita Shrestha Pradhanb. 1999NPNepali judoka
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 345 | #26,764 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 266 | #3,007 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 182 | #5,768 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 5 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #80 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #26,764 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Manita mean, and where does it come from?
- The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Manita a male or female name?
- Manita 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 Manita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Manita in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manita.
- How common is the name Manita?
- In the United States, the national register counted 346 people named Manita in 2020, about 1 in 961 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Manita?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manitaThe 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, “Manita”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.