Mangia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: redução popular e coloquial de compostos com mangia como primeiro elemento

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Mangia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 202K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 58K
  • ARArgentina1 in 679K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,048 people

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

redução popular e coloquial de compostos com mangia como primeiro elemento

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mangia 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 Mangia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,0481 in 202K1KMangia63
US United States1751 in 1.9M182Mangia21
CH Switzerland1461 in 58K146—5
AR Argentina671 in 679K67Mangia27
ES Spain191 in 2.6M19Mangia7
BE Belgium101 in 1.2M10—1

1,048 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Mangia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, Spain

    Also written Mangìa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mângia

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tanzania, Peru, Kenya

    Also written Mângia

37 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)

Mangia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, mangiare to eat (L manducare to chew). Dims.: It.: Mangini (Tuscany, Liguria); Mangiullo, Mangiulli. Fr.: Mangot, Manguet, Manguin.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In Interlingua, present of mangiar

    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)

1940196019802000Alessandro Mangia, b. 1941Devis Mangia, b. 1974Dharma Mangia Woods, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Mr Mangia,
InformalHi Mangia,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Mangia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1K#8,878
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020182#104,723
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000181#93,841
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010175#102,688
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024146#8,135
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—67—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19#86,409
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200810#73,923
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Mangia?
A machine transcription gives /mændʒiə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Mangia mean?
Recorded meaning: redução popular e coloquial de compostos com mangia como primeiro elemento
In which country does Mangia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Mangia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mangia.
Where is Mangia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mangia is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mangia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,048 people named Mangia, about 1 in 202 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, “Mangia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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