Manoj
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cupid
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/manɑːdʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manoj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 7th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 832(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 10K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 12K
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)
- #283 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 319 (inferred from the name graph)
≈95,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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:
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)
Cupid
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manoj 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 | — | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 319 | 1 | Manoj | 84 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #116 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 832 | — | Manoj | 53 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Manoj | 50 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Manoj | 39 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Manoj | 35 |
| US United States | — | 4,272 | 1 in 78K | 4.3K | Manoj | 343 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Manoj | 38 |
| SG Singapore | #897 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Manoj | 73 |
| IN India | #7 | — | — | 40K | Manoj | 333 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Manoj Dasb. 1934INIndian writer (1934–2021)
- Manoj Kumarb. 1937INIndian actor and director (1937-2025)
- Manoj Mitrab. 1938INBengali Indian theatre, film and television actor, director and playwright
- Manoj Sinhab. 1959INIndian politician
- Manoj Joshib. 1965INIndian actor
- Manoj Bajpaib. 1969INIndian actor
- M. Night Shyamalanb. 1970INnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker (born 1970)
- Manoj Tiwarib. 1971INIndian politician, singer and actor
- Manoj Punjabib. 1972IDIndian-Indonesian film and television producer
- Manoj Sarkarb. 1990INIndian para badminton player
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 44 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Manoj mean, and where does it come from?
- Cupid Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- How do you pronounce Manoj?
- A machine transcription gives /manɑːdʒ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Manoj a male or female name?
- Manoj is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Manoj?
- In the etymology graph, Panchanan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Manoj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Manoj in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manoj.
- How common is the name Manoj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,272 people named Manoj in 2020, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Manoj compared with other names?
- In India, Manoj is the 7th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Manoj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manojThe 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, “Manoj” — the 7th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.