Manao
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hombre poderoso.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 93K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 114K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mañao in CL Chile, AR Argentina.
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)
Hombre poderoso
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manao 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Manao | 54 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Manao | 35 |
| IN India | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 478 | Manao | 4 |
| CL Chile | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Mañao | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 160 | 1 in 1.3M | 160 | Manao | 26 |
| AR Argentina | 78 | 1 in 583K | 78 | Mañao | 12 |
| PT Portugal | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 675K | — | Manao | 6 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)
Manao is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bik, to give away; to dispense things
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, to act
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, manna
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 478 | #384 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 160 | #44,032 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,168 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Manao mean, and where does it come from?
- Hombre poderoso Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- In which country does Manao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Manao in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manao.
- How common is the name Manao?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 160 people named Manao, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Manao?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manaoThe 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, “Manao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.