Manaï
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manaï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.9K
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 49K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, 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 Manai in FR France, TN Tunisia, IT Italy.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manaï 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Manai | 14 |
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 168 | Manai | 175 |
| IT Italy | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 90K | listed | Manai | 7 |
| IN India | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 4 | — | 2 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | Manaï | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
- Mouldi Manaib. 1950TNTunisian boxer
- Youssef Manaib. 1975TNTunisian association football coach
- Yamen Manaib. 1980TNTunisian writer
- Bochra Manaïb. 1982CAgeographer and sociologist
- Tahar Manaïb. 1988TNFrench-Tunisian mountaineer
- Mohamed Manaib. 2002QAQatari association football player (born 2003)
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 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- In which country does Manaï have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Manaï in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manai.
- How common is the name Manaï?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 58 people named Manaï in 2024, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Manaï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mana%C3%AFThe 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, “Manaï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.