Mân
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to caress, to touch gently
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mân is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 14K
- ALAlbania1 in 28K
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 Mân itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
23,979 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Man in VN Vietnam, US United States.
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)to caress, to touch gently
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mân 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 | — | 23,979 | 1 in 14K | 21K | Man | 93 |
| VN Vietnam | #142 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Man | 126 |
| SE Sweden | — | 608as Min | 1 in 17K | 608 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 282as Min | 1 in 177K | 342 | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 133as Min | 1 in 288K | 97 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 111 | 1 in 28K | 111 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 99as Min | 1 in 59K | 61 | — | — |
23,979 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Mân 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 Welsh, fine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rgn, hand
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)- Zhu Meib. 801not in their usual nameChinese chancellor
- Zhou Manb. 1378Chinese admiral
- Ashin Jinarakkhitab. 1923IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian Buddhist monk
- Huang Meib. 1950GBnot in their usual nameresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0003-0915-018X
- Zhao Meib. 1954CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer
- Hu Meib. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese director, television director and producer
- Fang Manb. 1977CNChinese-American composer
- Dian Manson of Dian Wei
- Zhao ManMing dynasty person CBDB = 325400
- Chen ManMing dynasty person CBDB = 331040
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mân mean, and where does it come from?
- to caress, to touch gently Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mân a male or female name?
- Mân is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mân have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Mân, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled man.
- How common is the name Mân?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,979 people named Mân in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Mân compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Mân is the 142nd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A2nThe 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, “Mân” — the 142nd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.