Manola
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a diminutive of the female given name Manuela
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/manola/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 200K
- LYLibya≈1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Manola itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, 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(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Manuela
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Manola is read(measured from records)
Manola is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish27%
a diminutive of the female given name Manuela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Manola in English.
- Italian15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Manola in Italian.
- French13%
Variante féminine associée à Emmanuel; même origine et sens.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- Portuguese8.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Manola in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manola 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Manola | 69 |
| EG Egypt | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 287K | — | Manola | 17 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 200K | 335 | Manola | 120 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Manola | 13 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Manola | 4 |
| US United States | 208 | 1 in 1.6M | 194 | Manola | 66 |
| LY Libya | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Manola | 1 |
| AL Albania | 40 | 1 in 77K | 40 | Manola | 8 |
| GE Georgia | 34as მანოლა | 1 in 118K | 34 | Manola | 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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Manola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, spāņu deja
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Manola Saavedrab. 1936MXMexican actress (1936–2012)
- Manola Asensiob. 1943Swiss ballet dancer
- Manola Roblesb. 1948CLChilean journalist (1948-2021)
- Manola Brunetb. 1955ESSpanish geographer and climatologist (born 1955)
- Manola Antoniolib. 1968ITItalian-French philosopher
- Manola Díezb. 1974MXMexican television actor and actor
- Manola GalofaroBEBelgian association football player
- Manoli VargasESnot in their usual namedocumentary filmmaker
- Manola Ida VenzoITauthor of Accademie & biblioteche d'Italia
- Manola Comarresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-6310-3320)
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)
Attested in 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 110 | #149,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 102 | #154,755 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Manola mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Manuela Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Manola?
- In the etymology graph, Manu, Emmanuelle and Emanuela are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Manuela.
- How do you pronounce Manola?
- A machine transcription gives /manola/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Manola a male or female name?
- Manola is a female 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 Manola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Manola in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manola.
- How common is the name Manola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 208 people named Manola in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Manola?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manolaThe 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, “Manola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.