Manzano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of various minor places named Manzano, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an apple tree or orchard, from Spanish manzano ‘apple tree’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Manzano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.4K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.6K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
habitational name from any of various minor places named Manzano, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an apple tree or orchard, from Spanish manzano ‘apple tree’. Old Spanish magano, from magana ‘apple’. Late Latin (mala) Mattiana, a type of apple named in honor of the 1st century BC horticulmral writer Gaius Matius.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manzano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #124 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Manzano | 113 |
| ES Spain | #147 | 27,962 | 1 in 1.8K | 28K | Manzano | 174 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Manzano | 17 |
| VE Venezuela | #371 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Manzano | 61 |
| US United States | — | 9,608 | 1 in 35K | 9.7K | Manzano | 307 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,975 | 1 in 2.8K | 6K | Manzano | 51 |
| SV El Salvador | #343 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Manzano | 30 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Manzano 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.
In Spanish, lived by an apple tree or orchard, from Sp. manzano apple tree (OSp. magano, from magana apple, LL (mala) Mattiana (originally neut. pi., then fern, sing.), a type of apple named in honour of the ist cent, bc horticultural writer Gaius Matius). manus hand). Collectives; Sp.; Manzanares. Port.: Macedo. Var.: Mancer.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Spanish, apple tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Manzano, mostly concentrated in Misamis Oriental (also among Ilocano and Tagalog settlers and descendants in the province)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Iloko, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Manzano, common in Ilocos region
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)
- Eduardo Manzanob. 1938MXMexican actor and comedian (1938-2025)
- Sonia Manzanob. 1950USAmerican television personality
- Eduardo Gómezb. 1951ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor (1951-2019)
- Edu Manzanob. 1955PHFilipino actor-politician
- Gregorio Manzanob. 1956ESSpanish football manager
- Miriam Manzanob. 1975AUAustralian figure skater
- Jesús Gil Manzanob. 1984ESSpanish association football referee
- Leonel Manzanob. 1984USMexican-American middle-distance track and field athlete
- Bernaldo Manzanob. 1990VEassociation football player
- Oti ManzanoESSpanish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Manzano mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various minor places named Manzano, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an apple tree or orchard, from Spanish manzano ‘apple tree’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Manzano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Manzano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manzano.
- Where is Manzano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Manzano is densest in Spain — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Manzano?
- In Spain, the national register counted 27,962 people named Manzano, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Manzano compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Manzano is the 124th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manzanoThe 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, “Manzano” — the 124th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.