Manie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of many
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Manie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 22Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BWBotswana≈1 in 56K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 110Kfew records
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Obsolete spelling of many.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Manie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Manie | 49 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Manie | 21 |
| IN India | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Manie | 16 |
| US United States | 442 | 1 in 753K | 373 | Manie | 140 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 756K | — | Manie | 33 |
| BW Botswana | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | — | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Manie | 2 |
| GY Guyana | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 8 | — | 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Manie 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.
In Polish, synonym of maliny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, sleeve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MANÍE, manii, s. f. 1. Boală mintală manifestată prin euforie, stare de excitație psihomotorie, logoree, halucinații, incoerență a gândirii etc.; p. ext. idee fixă care preocupă pe cineva. 2. (Cu sens atenuat) Preocupare exagerată pentru ceva; deprindere bizară. V. capriciu, toană.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- André Manieb. 1947FRFrench 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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Manie mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of many. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Manie a male or female name?
- Manie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Manie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Manie in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manie.
- How common is the name Manie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 442 people named Manie in 2020, about 1 in 753 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manieThe 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, “Manie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.