Manilal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manilal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 255K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.4M
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.5M
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manilal 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 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Manilal | 23 |
| US United States | 124 | 1 in 2.7M | 123 | Manilal | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Manilal | 24 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Manilal | 7 |
| BE Belgium | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 2 | Manilal | 1 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Manilal | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Manilal Dwivedib. 1858INIndian Gujarati-language writer and philosopher (1858–1898)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #140,677 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Is Manilal a male or female name?
- Manilal is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Manilal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 222 people named Manilal in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manilal.
- How common is the name Manilal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 124 people named Manilal in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Manilal?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manilalThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Manilal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.