Manzini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Swaziland: town in central Swaziland, formerly the capital
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manzini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 94K
- BRBrazil1 in 108K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, 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)
Swaziland: town in central Swaziland, formerly the capital
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manzini 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #425 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Manzini | 55 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Manzini | 34 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,964 | 1 in 108K | 2K | Manzini | 84 |
| AR Argentina | — | 483 | 1 in 94K | 483 | Manzini | 46 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 301 | 1 in 11K | 301 | Manzini | 12 |
| SZ Eswatini | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 14 | — | 1 |
| BM Bermuda | #184 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Manzini | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots. 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)
Manzini is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Zulu, Zulu praise name of the Zungu clan.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
In Latvian, pilsēta Svazilendā, 25600 iedzīvotāju (1997. g.)
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)
- Carlo Antonio Manzinib. 1600ITItalian astronomer
- Raimondo Manzinib. 1668ITItalian painter, 1668-1744
- Luigi Manzinib. 1805ITItalian painter (1805-1866)
- Italia Almirante Manzinib. 1890ITItalian actress (1890-1941)
- Gianna Manzinib. 1896ITItalian writer (1896-1974)
- Raimondo Manzinib. 1901ITVatican journalist (1901–1988)
- Baptiste Manzinib. 1920USAmerican football player and coach (1920-2008)
- Antonio Manzinib. 1964ITItalian actor, film director and writer
- Gaia Manzinib. 1974ITItalian writer
- Chiara Manzinib. 1978ITItalian mathematician (born 1978)
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 27 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,946 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 483 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 301 | — |
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 14 | #37 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
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 Manzini mean, and where does it come from?
- Swaziland: town in central Swaziland, formerly the capital Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Manzini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Manzini in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manzini.
- How common is the name Manzini?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,964 people named Manzini, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
- How common is Manzini compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Manzini is the 425th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manziniThe 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, “Manzini” — the 425th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.