Manzo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. nickname for someone supposedly resembling an ox, manzo (from Late Latin mansus ‘tame’ (see Manso), with a particular sense of an ox tamed to the plow), or metonymic occupational name for someone w
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/manso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manzo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 8.9K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 10K
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 Manzo 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
13,635 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Manso in ES Spain.
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)
1. nickname for someone supposedly resembling an ox, manzo (from Late Latin mansus ‘tame’ (see Manso), with a particular sense of an ox tamed to the plow), or metonymic occupational name for someone who worked with oxen. 2. nickname from manso ‘gentle’, ‘mild’ (from the same Late Latin word as 1). 3. possibly from a Germanic personal name formed with magin ‘strength’, ‘might’. Compare Main.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manzo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,635 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Manzo | 334 |
| BR Brazil | — | 12,042as Manso | 1 in 18K | 12K | Manzo | 63 |
| IT Italy | #333 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Manzo | 124 |
| ES Spain | #603 | 7,976as Manso | 1 in 6.3K | 8K | Manso | 139 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Manzo | 60 |
| VE Venezuela | #941 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Manzo | 40 |
| CL Chile | #699 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 1 | Manzo | 59 |
| GT Guatemala | #538 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Manzo | 27 |
13,635 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Manzo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, bling an ox. It. manzo (from LL mansus tame (see Manso), specialized in the sense of an ox tamed to the plough), or metonymic occupational name for someone who worked Dim. (of i): Jewish (E Ashkenazic): Menashko (among Rumanian Jews). (from i): Jewish: Manaschewitz, Manesewic. Patrs. Menashes; Menasherov; with oxen.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Hausa, messenger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, beef
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)
- José Manzob. 1789MXMexican architect
- Luis Aguilarb. 1918MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor and singer (1918–1997)
- Hugo Blancob. 1940VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan musician
- Rodulfo Manzob. 1949PEPeruvian footballer
- Armando Manzob. 1958MXMexican footballer
- Andrea Manzob. 1961ITItalian footballer and manager
- Caroline Manzob. 1961USAmerican television personality
- Gloria Guevara Manzob. 1967MXMexican politician
- Carlos Manzob. 1985MXMexican politician (1985–2025)
- Jesús Dueñasb. 1989MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,126 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 522 | #16,425 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 334 | #11,078 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 334 | #11,057 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Manzo mean, and where does it come from?
- 1. nickname for someone supposedly resembling an ox, manzo (from Late Latin mansus ‘tame’ (see Manso), with a particular sense of an ox tamed to the plow), or metonymic occupational name for someone w… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Manzo?
- A machine transcription gives /manso/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Manzo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Manzo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manzo.
- How common is the name Manzo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,635 people named Manzo in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Manzo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Manzo is the 333rd most common surname of 502,013 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/manzoThe 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, “Manzo” — the 333rd most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.