Manon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French diminutive of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam via Greek/Latin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/manɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 534(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.3K
- CACanada≈1 in 3.5K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 534 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, 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)
French diminutive of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam via Greek/Latin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Manon, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #82 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 534 | 173K | Manon | 390 |
| CA Canada | #549 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 1 | Manon | 188 |
| BE Belgium | #162 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 138 | Manon | 118 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Manon | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 9 | Manon | 67 |
| US United States | — | 1,256 | 1 in 265K | 1.2K | Manon | 187 |
| DK Denmark | — | 147 | 1 in 40K | 147 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Manon 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.
In French, a female given name, popular in the 1990s and the 2000s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Dérivé de Marianne; origine hébraïque, « goutte de mer ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Diminutif de Marie, d’origine hébraïque.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of mano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, to urge, to exhort
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Manon Rolandb. 1754FRFrench revolutionary
- Manon Gropiusb. 1916ATAustrian artistic muse (1916-1935)
- Manon Rasmussenb. 1951DKDanish costume designer
- Manon Briandb. 1964CACanadian film director and screenwriter
- Manon Bollegrafb. 1964NLDutch tennis player
- Manon Aubryb. 1989FRFrench politician (born 1989)
- Manon Azemb. 1990FRFrench actress
- Manon Gaurinb. 1994FRFrench actress
- Manon Brunetb. 1996FRFrench fencer
- Manon Breschb. 1998FRFrench actress
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 81 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 173K | #100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,549 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 147 | #1,225 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 138 | #53 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 83 | #10,549 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2022 | 1 | #2,258 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Manon mean, and where does it come from?
- French diminutive of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam via Greek/Latin. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Manon?
- A machine transcription gives /manɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Manon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 127 thousand people named Manon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manon.
- Is Manon a male or female name?
- Manon 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.
- What are other forms of the name Manon?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Manon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,256 people named Manon in 2020, about 1 in 265 thousand residents.
- How common is Manon compared with other names?
- In France, Manon is the 82nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Manon?
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/manonThe 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, “Manon” — the 82nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.