Mañay

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

Mañay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 14K
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 31K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,600 people, est.

Record sources
41 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Manay in PE Peru, PH Philippines, TR Türkiye.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mañay 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.

Where Mañay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈2,600 est.≈1 in 31K—Manay4
IN India≈2,300 est.≈1 in 586K1—3
PH Philippines≈1,600 est.≈1 in 68K—Manay18
PE Peru≈1,500 est.≈1 in 21K—Manay41
UY Uruguay2451 in 14K245Mañay12
CH Switzerland201 in 420K20——

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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Mañay is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Manay

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Manay, Man-Ay, Manãÿ, Mäñäy

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Ecuador, India, Peru

    Also written Manay

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Manay

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, Türkiye

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Manay

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, Peru, Spain

    Also written Manay

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Peru

    Also written Manay, Manãÿ

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Mañay is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Quechua, to request, demand, ask for, pray

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mañay under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Mañay have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Mañay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manay.
Where is Mañay most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mañay is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mañay?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 245 people named Mañay, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.

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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, “Mañay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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