Mane

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mane is a surname, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hindu (Maratha) name, probably from Sanskrit mdna ‘respect’ or mdnya ‘respectable’.

rarermore common
  • GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 22◐
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 112
  • HKHong Kong1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈644K ●

across 13 countries

#294 ●

of 21M surnames

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
475 ●

2.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 112 ◐

South Korea

Spellings & scripts●

MunLatin · Korean●971K records
মনBengali · Bangla●5.1K records
МунCyrillic · Russian●2.1K records
만오Hangul · Korean●334 records
ᲛაინაGeorgian · Georgian●75 records
మనTelugu · Telugu●7 records
மீனTamil · Tamil●1 records
ಮನKannada · Kannada●0 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mann in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 9 more, Man in AR Argentina, HK Hong Kong, MX Mexico, Muñ in CR Costa Rica, PE Peru and Maina in NG Nigeria, BR Brazil.

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●

Hindu (Maratha) name, probably from Sanskrit mdna ‘respect’ or mdnya ‘respectable’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mane is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#24464,047256K rec.1 in 112477K문126
US United States#30383,510771K rec.1 in 4K84KMann475
GW Guinea-Bissau#575,28719 rec.—14KMane15
GB United Kingdom#26075,17763K rec.—3Mann212
MY Malaysia#12931,83252K rec.——Mun102
AU Australia#24430,33832K rec.—3Mann189
DE Germany#23128,05626K rec.—1Mann176
CR Costa Rica—27,421△191 rec.1 in 18627KMuñ15
CA Canada#24322,93122K rec.—6Mann175
ES Spain—21,695△7.1K rec.1 in 2.3K22KManu70
PE Peru—16,3921.7K rec.——Muñ32
EC Ecuador—15,742△79 rec.1 in 1.1K16K—14

Roughly 464K people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 112). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi372K69%
  • Portuguese77K14%
  • Vietnamese28K5%
  • English14K3%
  • 11K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi372,34669%
Portuguese77,28214%
Vietnamese28,4965%
English13,5593%
11,4442%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • English surname23K records spelled Mane49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mañe, Mané, Mañé, Manè, Man-E

  • Spanish surname16K records spelled Mane49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mañe, Mañé, Mané, Mänë, Máne

  • a separate surname13K records spelled Mane7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia, Spain

    Also written Mañé, Mané, Mañe, Māne, Maṇē

  • French surname13K records spelled Mane48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Senegal, Spain, Côte d’Ivoire

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mané, Mana, Manè, Mañé, Mañe

  • Macedonian given name2.1K records spelled Mane19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Macedonian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Мане, Mañe, Mané, Manhay, Måne

  • Armenian given name2.0K records spelled Mane9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Armenia, India

    Also written Մանե, Man, Mané, Manė, Magnet

  • Bangla surname2.0K records spelled Mane20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Odia

    Also written Mone, মনে, Mune, মানে, Maney

68 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●

Mane 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.

  • In Portuguese, inflection of manar:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Irish, Apparently a form of Manus.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In Russian, "attract."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In pi, locative singular of manas (“mind”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion

    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.

Over time●

0102030401920194019601980200036 · 1975

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Mane in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19181
19191
19203
19211
19241
19252
19261
19271
19281
19291
19302
19312
19324
19334
19344
19357
19363
19375
19383
19395
194011
19417
194212
19435
194410
19459
19466
19477
194814
19497
195010
195110
195210
19534
195411
195518
195611
195715
19589
195916
196018
196115
196218
196314
196417
196516
196615
196725
196818
196922
197030
197118
197222
197327
197427
197536
197625
197727
197826
197928
198035
198124
198226
198323
198422
198527
198625
198727
198834
198923
199025
199128
199228
199333
199427
199518
199610
199711
19985
20082
20091
20101
20119
20125
20134
20145
20159

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Mordecai Zvi Mane, b. 1859Sureshbabu Mane, b. 1902Mirja Mane, b. 1929Ansumane Mané, b. 1940Laxman Mane, b. 1949Tyler Mane, b. 1966Malick Mane, b. 1988Ousmane Mané, b. 1990Carlos Mané, b. 1994Alexis Mané, b. 1997

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 78 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Mane
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.8K#3,364
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,761
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—854#5,099
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—854#5,094
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010563#39,117
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000464#43,798
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020340#21,175
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—245#1,864
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—206#1,380
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991181—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022151—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—146#30,950

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 487 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mane?
We estimate roughly 644 thousand people bear Mane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Mane have the most bearers?
We estimate about 464 thousand people bear Mane in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 문.
How common is Mane compared with other names?
In South Korea, Mane is the 24th most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Mane mean?
Recorded meaning: Hindu (Maratha) name, probably from Sanskrit mdna ‘respect’ or mdnya ‘respectable’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Mane” — the 24th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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