Mandana

given name · Latin script

Meaning: weibl. Vom. persischer Herkunft (pers

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

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

Mandana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 465K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 60K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 63K

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.

United States (measured from records)

715 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
190 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MandanaLatin(measured from records)
МанданаCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

recorded in German

weibl. Vom. persischer Herkunft (pers. manda »schwarzer Bernstein«).

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mandana 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 Mandana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7151 in 465K714Mandana190
IR Iran≈470 est.≈1 in 183K—Mandana38
DE Germany≈340 est.≈1 in 236K1Mandana69
GB United Kingdom≈180 est.≈1 in 364K—Mandana60
CA Canada≈180 est.≈1 in 211K—Mandana45
SE Sweden1701 in 60K170Mandana19
AT Austria≈140 est.≈1 in 63K14Mandana19
DK Denmark411 in 143K41——
NO Norway≈30 est.≈1 in 180K148—6
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

715 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Mandana is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Iran, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Maṇḍana

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Iran

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mandaña, Mándana, Maṇḍana

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Canada

    Also written Maṇḍana, Mandaña

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mandaña, Maṇḍana, Māndānā

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Mandaná

35 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)

Mandana 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.

  • “cheerful”

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • honourable ornament.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In Latvian, pilsēta ASV ("Mandan"), Ziemeļdakotas štatā, 20800 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

196019802000Mandana Moghaddam, b. 1962Mandana Seyfeddinipur, b. 1967Mandana Jones, b. 1967Mandana Naderian, b. 1970Mandana Dayani, b. 1982Mandana Karimi, b. 1988Mandana Dehghan, b. 1991Mandana Knopf, b. 1992Mandana Sattari, b. 2000Mandana Chitsazan, b. 2000

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)

InformalHi Mandana,

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 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Mandana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020714#15,926
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—170#5,883
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—148#5,958
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018136—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020135—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019135—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017126—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016126—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013126—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014125—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015124—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2010120—

Reference works 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Mandana?
A machine transcription gives /mændænə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Mandana a male or female name?
Mandana is a female 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 does the name Mandana mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. persischer Herkunft (pers.
In which country does Mandana have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 715 people named Mandana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mandana.
Where is Mandana most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mandana is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 60 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mandana?
In the United States, the national register counted 715 people named Mandana in 2020, about 1 in 465 thousand residents.

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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, “Mandana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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