Māne
given name · Latin script
Māne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country. In Guinea-Bissau it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”).
- ALAlbania≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 14K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 29Kfew records
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 Māne 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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 401 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guinea-Bissau, 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 Mane in IN India, GW Guinea-Bissau, FR France and 2 more.
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)- Middle Englishmane(measured from records)
- Old Englishmanu“mane”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*manu(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*manō“mane”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*mony-“neck”(measured from records)
From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Māne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #475 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 589 | 34 | Mane | 11 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #6 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 401 | 14K | Mane | 16 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 213 | — | — |
| IN India | #351 | 1,830 | 1 in 725K | 1.8K | Mane | 197 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 2.7K | Mane | 2 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 206 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Mane | 31 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Māne mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Irish first names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Māne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Māne in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mane.
- How common is the name Māne?
- In India, the national register counted 1,830 people named Māne, about 1 in 725 thousand residents.
- How common is Māne compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Māne is the 475th most common surname of 3,622 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/m%C4%81neThe 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, “Māne” — the 475th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.