Manalo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A Filipino surname from Tagalog

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mɑˈnɑɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Manalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 4.2K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 13K

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 Manalo 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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈98,000 people, est.

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
276 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ManaloLatin(measured from records)
מנאלHebrew(measured from records)
МанальCyrillic(measured from records)
มานะลอThai(measured from records)
마날Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Manal in MA Morocco, AE United Arab Emirates.

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)

alternatively, perhaps Catalan (Manalo), variant spelling of Manelo, pet form of the personal name Manel, short form of Emanuel.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

How Manalo is read(measured from records)

Manalo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English59%

    A Filipino surname from Tagalog.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish23%

    second-person singular voseo imperative of manar combined with lo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Swahili5.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Manalo in Swahili.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Manalo 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.

Where Manalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#36≈98,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Manalo140
ID Indonesia—≈63,000 est.≈1 in 4.2K—Manalo39
MA Morocco—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 3.4KlistedManal89
US United States—3,5711 in 93K3.8KManalo276
IT Italy—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 48K14Manalo26
AE United Arab Emirates#600≈800 est.≈1 in 13K—Manal99
QA Qatar#566≈180 est.≈1 in 14K—Manalo50

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Manalo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, United States, Réunion

    Also written Mànàló

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States

    Also written Mănălơ

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Canada

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Манало

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Manalo 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.

  • alternatively, perhaps Catalan (Manalo), variant spelling of Manelo, pet form of the personal name Manel, short form of Emanuel.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Filipino; unexplained.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In hil, a surname from Tagalog, found among people of ethnic Tagalog descent in North Cotabato

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, a common surname from Tagalog

    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)

190019502000Paolo Manalo, b. 1901Eraño Manalo, b. 1925Luis Enrique Austria Manalo, b. 1952Eduardo V. Manalo, b. 1955Jose Manalo, b. 1966Raymond Manalo, b. 1983Ahtisa Manalo, b. 1997Brent Manalo, b. 1997Chelsea Manalo, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Manalo,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Manalo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.6K#8,762
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.6K#9,139
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,677
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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

Where does the name Manalo come from?
alternatively, perhaps Catalan (Manalo), variant spelling of Manelo, pet form of the personal name Manel, short form of Emanuel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Manalo?
A machine transcription gives /mɑˈnɑɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Manalo mean?
In English, A Filipino surname from Tagalog.
In which country does Manalo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Manalo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manalo.
How common is the name Manalo?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,571 people named Manalo in 2010, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
How common is Manalo compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Manalo is the 36th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Manalo” — the 36th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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