Mangas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from mangas ‘smart’, ‘clever’, ‘cunning’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/manɡas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mangas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 708K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 13K
- ARArgentina1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
3,801 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from mangas ‘smart’, ‘clever’, ‘cunning’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mangas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 3,801 | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | Mangas | 44 |
| US United States | — | 470 | 1 in 708K | 678 | Mangas | 172 |
| AR Argentina | — | 432 | 1 in 105K | 432 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 351 | 1 in 603K | 351 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 21 | 1 in 243K | 21 | — | — |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #187 | — | — | — | Mangas | 1 |
3,801 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Mangas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
probably from a byname from manga ‘sleeve’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
habitational name from Mangas in Zaragoza province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of manga
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)
- Ernesto V. Mangasb. 1908ESSpanish author
- Nicole Mangasb. 1950FRFrench association football player
- Araceli Mangas Martínb. 1953ESSpanish jurist
- Ricardo Mangasb. 1998PTPortuguese association football player
- Omar de la Cruzb. 2001DOnot in their usual namefootballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.8K | #1,368 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.8K | #1,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 678 | #35,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 516 | #40,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 470 | #45,495 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 432 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 351 | #23,217 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 21 | #3,531 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mangas mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from mangas ‘smart’, ‘clever’, ‘cunning’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mangas?
- A machine transcription gives /manɡas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mangas have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Mangas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mangas.
- Where is Mangas most common?
- Mangas is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mangas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,801 people named Mangas, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Mangas compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Mangas is the 187th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mangasThe 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, “Mangas” — the 187th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.