Mandana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom. persischer Herkunft (pers
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Mandana is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 60K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 117K
- NONorway≈1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)weibl. Vom. persischer Herkunft (pers. manda »schwarzer Bernstein«).
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 14 | Mandana | 7 |
| US United States | 715 | 1 in 465K | 714 | Mandana | 190 |
| DE Germany | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 1 | Mandana | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Mandana | 60 |
| SE Sweden | 170 | 1 in 60K | 170 | Mandana | 19 |
| AT Austria | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 14 | Mandana | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Mandana | 12 |
| NO Norway | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 148 | — | 6 |
| IS Iceland | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 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)- Mandana Moghaddamb. 1962SEIranian artist
- Mandana Seyfeddinipurb. 1967IRIranian linguist
- Mandana Jonesb. 1967GBBritish actress
- Mandana Naderianb. 1970DEGerman television presenter
- Mandana Dayanib. 1982IRAmerican lawyer
- Mandana Karimib. 1988IRIndia-based Iranian actress and model
- Mandana Dehghanb. 1991IRIranian cyclist
- Mandana Knopfb. 1992DEGerman association football player
- Mandana Sattarib. 2000IRresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-9409-070X)
- Mandana Chitsazanb. 2000IRresearcher
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)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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 714 | #15,926 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 170 | #5,883 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 148 | #5,958 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 136 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 135 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 135 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 126 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 126 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 126 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 125 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 124 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 120 | — |
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
- Is Mandana a male or female name?
- Mandana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Mandana mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. persischer Herkunft (pers.
- In which country does Mandana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 724 people named Mandana in India, 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 India 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.
What do you want to know about Mandana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mandanaThe 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, “Mandana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.