Mangal
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mæŋɡəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mangal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Portuguese mangal, from Portuguese mangue (“mangrove”) + Portuguese -al (“-al”).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 422K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mangal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
- Portuguesemangal(measured from records)
- Portuguesemangue“mangrove”(measured from records)
From Portuguese mangal, from Portuguese mangue (“mangrove”) + Portuguese -al (“-al”)
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mangal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Mangal | 19 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Mangal | 16 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Mangal | 17 |
| US United States | — | 284 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.3K | Mangal | 200 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Mangal | 11 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 4 | — | — |
| IN India | #306 | — | — | 4.5K | Mangal | 156 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Mangal is also recorded in 6 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 tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or similar shrubs and trees.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, An open-top fireplace, made of sheet metal, copper or brass, used for either heat or cooking; a brasier or a barbecue.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, mango farm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, charcoal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In inc-kho, fire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kky, hand
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mangal Singh Champiab. 1983INIndian archer
- Mangal Singhab. 2003BDbadminton player
- Mangal SainINIndian politician
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Mangal mean, and where does it come from?
- From Portuguese mangal, from Portuguese mangue (“mangrove”) + Portuguese -al (“-al”) Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Mangal?
- A machine transcription gives /mæŋɡəl/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mangal a male or female name?
- Mangal is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mangal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Mangal in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mangal.
- How common is the name Mangal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 284 people named Mangal in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Mangal compared with other names?
- In India, Mangal is the 306th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mangalThe 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, “Mangal” — the 306th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.