Manoah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Hebrew name meaning 'rest' or 'quiet', historically associated with the father of the biblical strongman Samson (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries
/manoah/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Manoah is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 35K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 180K
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Manoah
- Swahili:/manoah/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A Hebrew name meaning 'rest' or 'quiet', historically associated with the father of the biblical strongman Samson.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Manoah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Manoah | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 451K | — | Manoah | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 494 | 1 in 35K | 360 | Manoah | 9 |
| FR France | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 1.1K | Manoah | 108 |
| US United States | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 241 | Manoah | 101 |
| BE Belgium | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Manoah | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Manoah is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Manoah represents the faithful seeker of divine guidance, particularly in the context of parenting and stewardship of God's promises.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, The father of the biblical strongman Samson.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Rest
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Riposo
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Manoah Leide-Tedescob. 1895USviolinist and composer (1895-1982)
- Manoah van Houwelingenb. 2005NLDutch association football player
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Manoah mean, and where does it come from?
- A Hebrew name meaning 'rest' or 'quiet', historically associated with the father of the biblical strongman Samson. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Manoah?
- In Swahili /manoah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Manoah a male or female name?
- Manoah is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Manoah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 777 people named Manoah in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manoah. After it come Nigeria, Netherlands, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Manoah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Manoah is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Manoah?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 494 people named Manoah, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Manoah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manoahThe 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, “Manoah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.