Mantu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mantu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Siva (N).
- RORomania≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 84K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 161K
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 Mantu 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Siva (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mantu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Mantu | 22 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Mantu | 11 |
| US United States | — | 393as Mont | 1 in 846K | 741 | Mantu | 40 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Mantu | 18 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Mantu | 40 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 673K | — | Mantu | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 35 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 4 | — | — |
| IN India | #715 | — | — | 79 | Mantu | 110 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
Mantu 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.
advisor. ruler; arbiter; man; mankind.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Finnish, ground, soil (especially in connection of ownership)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, one who imagines
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, land, soil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, savienojumā "par mantu" - noteikti, par katru cenu
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)
- Mantu Ghoshb. 1973INIndian table tennis 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 162 | #16,365 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 79 | #33,177 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #362,941 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Mantu mean, and where does it come from?
- Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Mantu a male or female name?
- Mantu 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 Mantu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Mantu in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mantu.
- How common is the name Mantu?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Mantu in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
- How common is Mantu compared with other names?
- In India, Mantu is the 715th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mantu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mantuThe same 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), 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, “Mantu” — the 715th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.