Manisa
loc · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Manisa is a name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Singapore it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: lord of the mind. profound thinker; wise.
- 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, Manasa in IN India, 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●
lord of the mind. profound thinker; wise.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
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●
- Turkish1M95%
- Arabic2.4K1%
- Indonesian1451%
- Pashto1301%
- Persian1041%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,049,564 | 95% |
| Arabic | 2,408 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 145 | 1% |
| Pashto | 130 | 1% |
| Persian | 104 | 1% |
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●
Manisa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Manisa (a province and metropolitan municipality in western Turkey)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, count
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, honey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Turcijas rietumos ("Manisa"), Gedizas upes ielejā, ila administratīvais centrs, 309000 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1934 | 3 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 3 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 2 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 4 |
| 1952 | 2 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1954 | 4 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 9 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 17 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 15 |
| 1966 | 21 |
| 1967 | 21 |
| 1968 | 19 |
| 1969 | 21 |
| 1970 | 37 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1972 | 22 |
| 1973 | 31 |
| 1974 | 37 |
| 1975 | 41 |
| 1976 | 46 |
| 1977 | 47 |
| 1978 | 45 |
| 1979 | 40 |
| 1980 | 38 |
| 1981 | 51 |
| 1982 | 68 |
| 1983 | 63 |
| 1984 | 69 |
| 1985 | 78 |
| 1986 | 87 |
| 1987 | 85 |
| 1988 | 90 |
| 1989 | 71 |
| 1990 | 72 |
| 1991 | 92 |
| 1992 | 99 |
| 1993 | 100 |
| 1994 | 77 |
| 1995 | 75 |
| 1996 | 45 |
| 1997 | 46 |
| 1998 | 21 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 |
| 2015 | 8 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 68 years between 1923–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Münire Manisab. 1989TRTurkish jurist and politician (born 1989)
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 161 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Manisa?
- We estimate roughly 893 thousand people bear Manisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Manisa have the most bearers?
- Manisa is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled manisa.
- How common is Manisa compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Manisa is the 25th most common given name of 46,862 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Manisa mean?
- Recorded meaning: lord of the mind. profound thinker; wise.
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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, “Manisa” — the 25th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.