Mansour

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mansoor in PK Pakistan, GB United Kingdom, AE United Arab Emirates and 4 more, Мансур in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Mansur in TR Türkiye, NG Nigeria, ID Indonesia and 1 more and Mansuri in IN India.

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●

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology 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◐

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

• French given name45K records spelled Mansour3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Senegal, United States, Belgium

  Also written Man-Sour, Mànsoùr

• Spanish given name16K records spelled Mansour28 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Månsõür, Mâńšõùŕ, Mànsoùr, Mänsöür, Ḿẵnṧỡǖr

• Indonesian given name8.1K records spelled Mansour5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Algeria, Iran, Morocco

  Also written Mȁnşȍùȑ, Mânśour, Manşour, Mansöur

• a separate given name3.6K records spelled Mansour2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Iran, India

  Also written Manṣour

• Danish given name3.1K records spelled Mansour7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Mansoúr

• Turkish given name2.5K records spelled Mansour8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Manşour, Mäñśoür, Mànsour

61 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●

Mansour 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.

• habitational name from the city of Mansoura, in in the Nile Delta. It was named for a battle in 1250 in which the Saracens destroyed a Crusader force, capturing King Louis IX of France and holding him and many of his knights to ransom. Mansouras is also found as a Greek family name; there was a large Greek community in Mansoura until comparatively recently.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A transliteration of the Arabic male given name مَنْصُور (manṣūr)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• victorious

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In French, Origine arabe, signifie « le désiré ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In Arabic, Victorious; triumphant.

  as a name·African Muslim Names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Al-Hallajb. 858IQnot in their usual namePersian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher (c.858–922)
• Al-Rashidb. 1109IQnot in their usual nameAbbasid caliph in Baghdad (r. 1135–1136)
• Al-Mustansirb. 1192IQnot in their usual name36th and Penultimate Abbasid Caliph (r. 1226–1242)
• Mansour Rahbanib. 1925LBLebanese composer (1925–2009)
• Mansour Muftahb. 1955QAQatari football player
• Mansour Bahramib. 1956IRIranian-French tennis player
• Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyanb. 1970AEVice President of the United Arab Emirates
• Mansour Jafari Mamaghanib. 1971IRIranian singer and actor
• Mansour Abbasb. 1974ILArab-Israeli dentist and politician
• Mansour bin Muqrinb. 1974SASaudi royal

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 · 186 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mansour?

We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Mansour (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.

In which country does Mansour have the most bearers?

Mansour is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mansuri.

How common is Mansour compared with other names?

In Algeria, Mansour is the 35th most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.

Is Mansour a male or female name?

Mansour 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 Mansour mean?

Recorded meaning: From Arabic منصور (mansūr), 'victorious'.