Manaî

Name: Manaî: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Manaî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.

rarermore common

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)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Manai

Locally spelled Manai in FR France, TN Tunisia, IT Italy and Manaï in CH Switzerland.

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

Wiktionary

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Manaî 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 Manaî is recorded, by country
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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Manaî is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname12 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Germany, Tunisia, Australia
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Manai, Mânâî, Manaï, Mànài, Mẳnặỉ

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Manaî under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Manaî have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Manaî in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manai.
How common is the name Manaî?: In Switzerland, the national register counted 58 people named Manaî in 2024, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.

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The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Manaî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)