Manta

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Maarit in FI Finland, NO Norway, CH Switzerland and 6 more, Manti in IN India, ZA South Africa, MY Malaysia, Marti in ES Spain, LA Laos and Marty in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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 2 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◐

Manta is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name5.2K records spelled Manta7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Germany, Netherlands

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Máñtá, Mañta

52 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●

Manta 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.

• thought.

  as a name·The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

• In Portuguese, blanket, bedspread

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

• In English, A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.

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

• In Cebuano, a manta ray; any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta

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

• In Spanish, blanket, cloth, cloth banner

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 86 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Manta van Nieuwlandb. 1842NLDutch actor

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 · 203 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Manta?

We estimate roughly 234 thousand people bear Manta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Manta have the most bearers?

Manta is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled manti.

Where is Manta most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Manta is densest in Finland — about 1 in 98 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Manta compared with other names?

In Finland, Manta is the 38th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.

Is Manta a male or female name?

Manta 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.

What does the name Manta mean?

Recorded meaning: Jina (N); Parsvanatha (N); Siva (N)