Manasa
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manasa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Singapore it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A goddess of snakes.
- TRTürkiye1 in 132◐
- AUAustralia1 in 323
- CACanada1 in 450
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈893K ●
- #208 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 586 ●
- 1 in 493 ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
8.3M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melissa in US United States, BR Brazil, FR France and 23 more, Manisa in TR Türkiye, มาริสา in TH Thailand and Mëlïssä in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A goddess of snakes.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,049,633 | 13K rec. | — | 2.3K | Manisa | 62 |
| US United States | #59 | 674,625 | 6.3M rec. | 1 in 493 | 675K | Melissa | 586 |
| AU Australia | #48 | 358,948 | 241K rec. | — | 83 | Melissa | 300 |
| GB United Kingdom | #103 | 335,130 | 304K rec. | — | 5 | Melissa | 265 |
| CA Canada | #59 | 184,764 | 165K rec. | — | 16 | Melissa | 253 |
| IN India | — | 140,572 | 81K rec. | — | 475 | Manasa | 129 |
| PE Peru | #246 | 128,954 | 105K rec. | — | — | Melissa | 91 |
| BR Brazil | #380 | 122,131△ | 59K rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 122K | Melissa | 190 |
| MX Mexico | #396 | 88,089 | 59K rec. | — | 195 | Melissa | 215 |
| IT Italy | #116 | 73,954 | 46K rec. | — | 583 | Melissa | 166 |
| CO Colombia | #145 | 67,443 | 22K rec. | — | — | Melissa | 159 |
| PH Philippines | #324 | 66,204 | 62K rec. | — | — | Melissa | 142 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi50K32%
- English30K19%
- Telugu26K17%
- Assamese26K17%
- Sinhala7.3K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 49,781 | 32% |
| English | 29,763 | 19% |
| Telugu | 25,502 | 17% |
| Assamese | 25,502 | 17% |
| Sinhala | 7,342 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Manasa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Galbūt su vėliau pridėta galūne -a iš Manas (žr.). Bet plg. hebr. Manasses (J. Dumčius, 1958 a, p. 253), Manasse (ten pat, 165). MANASfiVTČIUS Vs - žr. Manasa.
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
name of many men (P); Krsna (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
ocean of pride. extremely proud.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Malagasy, wash
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Hindu mitoloģijā - Šivas meita, dieviete - čūska, ko radījusi Šivas doma, māsa čūsku valdniekam Šešam, uz kura savītajiem riņķiem atpūšas Višnu starplaikos starp savām kosmiskajām avatārām
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 14 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1989–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Manasa Saulob. 1989FJFijian rugby union player
- Manasa Varanasib. 1997INIndian actress
- Manasa G. MantravadiUSassistant professor of clinical medicine
- Manasa MandavaUSPh.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook 2015
- Manasa TugiaFijian politician
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●
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 26K | #250 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #9,928 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 984 | #3,914 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46 | #14,509 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 26 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 26 | #67,090 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 26 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #9,928 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 19 | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 83 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Manasa?
- We estimate roughly 893 thousand people bear Manasa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Manasa have the most bearers?
- Manasa is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled manisa.
- How common is Manasa compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Manasa is the 25th most common given name of 46,862 given names recorded there.
- Is Manasa a male or female name?
- Manasa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Manasa mean?
- Recorded meaning: A goddess of snakes.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Manasa” — the 25th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.