Manna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name derived from the Germanic personal name Man(n)hard, composed of the elements mann ‘man’, ‘human’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 6K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.4K
- USUnited States1 in 97K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
220,753 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
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(measured from records)
from a personal name derived from the Germanic personal name Man(n)hard, composed of the elements mann ‘man’, ‘human’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #243 | 220,753 | 1 in 6K | 221K | Manna | 150 |
| BD Bangladesh | #452 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Manna | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Manna | 59 |
| US United States | — | 3,437 | 1 in 97K | 3.4K | Manna | 301 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Manna | 61 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Manna | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 43 | 1 in 17K | 43 | — | 2 |
220,753 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)
Manna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
possibly from La Manna, with loss of the definite article, from Old Italian Alamanna ‘Germania’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
topographic name from Sicilian manna ‘ash tree’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, forma feminina de Manno
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
from a feminine form of Manno.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Arabic, gift, present, favour, benefit, boon. Li: sl, oall aSle "We sent down the Manna upon you." (surat al-Bagarah phe hp
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Gennaro Mannab. 1715ITItalian composer (1715-1779)
- Giovanni Mannab. 1813ITItalian jurist and politician (1813-1865)
- Eugene Mannab. 1867Catholic priest, Catholic bishop (1867-1928)
- Paolo Mannab. 1872ITItalian Catholic missionary
- Sailen Mannab. 1924INIndian footballer (1924-2012)
- Louis Mannab. 1929USAmerican mobster
- Angelo Mannab. 1935ITItalian politician and journalist (1935-2001)
- Zohar Mannab. 1939ILAmerican-Israeli computer scientist
- Stevie Richardsb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and podcaster
- Jumana Mannab. 1987USPalestinian contemporary artist (born 1987)
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 50 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 221K | #103 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,190 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 848 | #827 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 43 | #582 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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 Manna mean, and where does it come from?
- from a personal name derived from the Germanic personal name Man(n)hard, composed of the elements mann ‘man’, ‘human’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Manna?
- A machine transcription gives /mænə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Manna have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 221 thousand people named Manna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manna.
- Where is Manna most common?
- Manna is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Manna?
- In India, the national register counted 220,753 people named Manna, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Manna compared with other names?
- In India, Manna is the 243rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mannaThe 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, “Manna” — the 243rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.