Manjula

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Манджула in UA Ukraine.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

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◐

Manjula is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name4.3K records spelled Manjula5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka

  Also written Mañjūḷa, Mañjula, Mañjulā, Mañjuḷā

• a separate name173 records spelled Manjula6 spellings in the group

  Also written மஞ்சுளா, ಮಂಜುಳಾ, Mañjuḷa, Mañjuḷā

18 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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 90 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Manjula Vijayakumarb. 1953INIndian actress (1953-2013)
• Manjula Padmanabhanb. 1953INIndian playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author
• Manjula Ghattamanenib. 1970INIndian actress
• Manjula Sampath Fernandob. 1976LKbadminton player
• Manjula AnaganiINIndian gynecologist
• Manjula AnwarBDBengali linguist
• Manjula WaniganayakeAUAcademic in early childhood education
• Manjula Kurella Tamuraresearcher
• Manjula SunkaraUSresearcher
• Manjula KaliaINresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Manjula?

We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Manjula (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Manjula have the most bearers?

Manjula is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled manjula.

How common is Manjula compared with other names?

In India, Manjula is the 308th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Manjula a male or female name?

Manjula 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.