Manh

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Manh is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a thin cloth; rag; piece (of clothing).

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 211
  • USUnited States1 in 344K
  • FRFrance1 in 434K

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

≈1.4K

across 8 countries

Sources
185

237K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K

Iceland

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 thin cloth; rag; piece (of clothing)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Manh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#38403,217227K rec.listedManh185
FR France1,2151.3K rec.Manh134
US United States9667.1K rec.1 in 344K966Manh93
GB United Kingdom293432 rec.Manh22
SE Sweden22037 rec.1 in 46K2207
CA Canada177223 rec.10Manh22
RU Russia91123 rec.Manh12
PL Poland491 in 781K49
AO Angola4147 rec.Manh3
FI Finland384 rec.1 in 147K1822
DK Denmark371 in 159K37
NZ New Zealand3738 rec.Manh5

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

Languages

  • Vietnamese316K91%
  • English14K4%
  • 3.4K1%
  • Spanish1.7K1%
  • French1.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese316,31591%
English14,4074%
3,4441%
Spanish1,7341%
French1,3431%

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

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

  • a separate given name96K records spelled Manh30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Russia

    Also written Mạnh, Mảnh, Mäňh, Mặnh, Mạñh

  • English given name22K records spelled Manh22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mạnh, Mành, Mảnh, Mãnh, Mänh

  • a separate given name4.3K records spelled Manh5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Mạnh, Maṅḥ, Manḥ, Mḁnh

  • Spanish given name2.5K records spelled Manh11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mạnh, Mảnh, Måñh, Mánh, Ṃ̵̎ạ̶̩͝n̶̺̽h̴̛ͅ

  • Czech given name1.9K records spelled Manh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Mạnh, Mąnh

  • Hindi given name1.3K records spelled Manh7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mãnh, Maṅḥ, Mạnh

  • Polish given name1.2K records spelled Manh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Mạnh, Mánh, Måñh

43 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

Manh is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, Strong

    as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)

  • In za, hot; spicy; pungent

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

  • In din, child, son

    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

05010015020002005201020152020105 · 2019

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Manh in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199935
200038
200145
200246
200346
200445
200553
200655
200760
200862
200966
201071
201180
201283
201382
201484
201583
201686
201787
201897
2019105
2020100

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

120014001600180020002200Trần Minh Tông, b. 1300Đăng Mạnh Nguyễn, b. 1930Trần Nguyên Mạnh, b. 1991Trần Đình Mạnh, b. 2003

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 25 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Manh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020966#10,586
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies796#654
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020283#10,586
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)220#4,891
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)182#3,680
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019105
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020100
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201897
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201787
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201686
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201484
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201583

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 58 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Manh?
We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Manh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Manh have the most bearers?
Manh is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled manh.
How common is Manh compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Manh is the 38th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Manh a male or female name?
Manh is a male 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 Manh mean?
Recorded meaning: a thin cloth; rag; piece (of clothing)
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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, “Manh” — the 38th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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