Manoj

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Manoj is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Cupid.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 441◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 22K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 34K

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

≈7.8K ●

across 10 countries

#315 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
308 ●

2.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 13K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

ManojLatin · Hindi●7M records
মনোজBengali · Bangla●5K records
มาโนThai · Thai●289 records
ᲛანოჯGeorgian · Georgian●17 records
ମନୋଜOdia · Odia●2 records
మనోజTelugu · Telugu●0 records

Locally spelled Manoch in TH Thailand.

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●

Cupid

Sources 1

  • A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

Where in the world●

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

Where Manoj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#157,379,7882.2M rec.—40KManoj308
GB United Kingdom—6,0842.5K rec.—listedManoj127
US United States—4,25429K rec.1 in 78K4.3KManoj308
TH Thailand—3,3872.9K rec.——Manoch81
MY Malaysia—2,9951.3K rec.——Manoj35
FR France—2,3850 rec.1 in 28K2.4K—2
CA Canada—1,2671.2K rec.——Manoj91
ID Indonesia—1,1181.1K rec.——Manoj47
LK Sri Lanka#1199863.4K rec.——Manoj49
NP Nepal—8072.3K rec.—1Manoj82
PK Pakistan—75090 rec.——Manoj32
JP Japan—714537 rec.——Manoj44

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

Languages●

  • Hindi7M80%
  • 1.1M13%
  • English116K1%
  • Bangla80K1%
  • Indonesian60K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi6,998,73780%
1,138,52313%
English116,3091%
Bangla80,4671%
Indonesian60,3031%

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◐

Manoj is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.2M records spelled Manoj2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Manōj

  • English given name140K records spelled Manoj17 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Mäñôj, Mäňőj, Mañoj, Manöj, Mānoj

  • Arabic given name37K records spelled Manoj6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written מאנוי, ማኖጅ

  • Spanish given name23K records spelled Manoj20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, France, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Mâñôj, Mánòj, Màñòj, Mãñôj, Máñój

  • Russian given name8.2K records spelled Manoj27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Манодж, Manoy, Манои, Маной, Mäñôj

  • Korean given name639 records spelled Manoj2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, South Korea, Malaysia

    Also written Mànoj

31 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●

020K40K60K80K19001920194019601980200063K · 1984

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Manoj in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1897–2017
Yearrecords
18973
189956
190012
19011
19061
19091
19111
19121
19134
19145
19153
191615
191722
191847
191938
1920293
192180
192284
1923394
1924104
192570
192615
192724
192821
192938
193016
193127
193237
193341
193448
193537
193642
193752
193858
193968
194064
194179
1942112
194397
1944140
1945184
1946154
1947222
1948154
1949178
1950271
1951292
1952421
1953345
1954540
1955602
1956663
1957969
19581,101
19591,655
19601,839
19612,437
19624,243
19634,302
19646,514
19657,504
19669,952
196712,914
196814,143
196917,149
197022,311
197122,732
197230,279
197330,591
197436,362
197537,269
197643,456
197738,378
197840,446
197942,785
198033,907
198147,826
198258,729
198359,616
198462,516
198557,686
198645,234
198754,557
198849,079
198946,692
199045,962
199146,866
199246,717
199346,217
199437,796
199532,128
199616,540
199716,353
199810,183
1999683
200054
200145
200224
20035
20041
20051
20064
200731
20086,728
200910
20103,560
201184
2012193
2013538
20149,374
20152,277
20168
201713

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 113 years between 1897–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Manoj Das, b. 1934Manoj Kumar, b. 1937Manoj Mitra, b. 1938Manoj Sinha, b. 1959Manoj Joshi, b. 1965Manoj Bajpai, b. 1969M. Night Shyamalan, b. 1970Manoj Tiwari, b. 1971Manoj Punjabi, b. 1972Manoj Sarkar, b. 1990

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 44 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Manoj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198463K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198360K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198259K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198558K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198755K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198849K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198148K—
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—23K#254
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.3K#4,396
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3.6K#190
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.6K#2,562
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020672#35,918

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 313 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Manoj?
We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Manoj (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Manoj have the most bearers?
Manoj is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled manoj.
How common is Manoj compared with other names?
In India, Manoj is the 15th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Manoj a male or female name?
Manoj 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 Manoj mean?
Recorded meaning: Cupid
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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, “Manoj” — the 15th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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