Manikas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a maker of handles (e.g
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mənɪkəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manikas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 78K
- FIFinland1 in 223K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Μανικας in GR Greece.
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)
occupational name for a maker of handles (e.g. of knives), from medieval Greek manikion ‘sleeve’, ‘handle’, from Latin manicae ‘sleeve, manacle’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manikas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Manikas | 1 |
| US United States | 278 | 1 in 1.2M | 278 | Manikas | 123 |
| GR Greece | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 6 | Μανικας | 38 |
| IT Italy | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 922K | — | Manikas | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 844K | — | Manikas | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Manikas | 1 |
| FI Finland | 25 | 1 in 223K | 25 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Manikas | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Manikas | 1 |
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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dimitris Manikasb. 1938ATAustrian architect
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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 278 | #70,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 256 | #71,143 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 243 | #83,373 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #40,245 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Manikas come from?
- occupational name for a maker of handles (e.g. of knives), from medieval Greek manikion ‘sleeve’, ‘handle’, from Latin manicae ‘sleeve, manacle’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Manikas?
- A machine transcription gives /mənɪkəz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Manikas mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name for a maker of handles (e.g.
- In which country does Manikas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Manikas in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manikas.
- How common is the name Manikas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 278 people named Manikas in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manikasThe 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, “Manikas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.