Mandu
loc · Latin script
Meaning: pleased. joyful; cheerful
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mandu is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pleased. joyful; cheerful.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mandu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Mandu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A dumpling in Korean cuisine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, lead; leadership
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, principle; rule
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, basket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Mandu valodas - Kongo-Kordofanas valodu saimes Nigēras-Kongo atzara valodu grupa, kas iedalās 4 grupās (bobofingu, austrumu, dienvidrietumu un ziemeļu grupa), kas apvieno 13 apakšgrupas, ģenealoģiskā piederība neskaidra, izplatīta Āfrikas R daļā (no Nigērijas līdz), izteikti analītiskas valodas, morfoloģiskie līdzekļi ierobežoti, liela nozīme sintaksei, stingri noteikta vārdu kārta
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.3K | #2,155 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 232 | #16,029 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 135 | #18,544 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- What does the name Mandu mean, and where does it come from?
- pleased. joyful; cheerful. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- In which country does Mandu have the most bearers?
- Mandu is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mandu.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manduThe 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, “Mandu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.