Mayna
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mayna is a given name, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Portuguese, written in the Latin script.
- GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 22◐
- KRSouth Korea1 in 112
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈644K ●
- #294 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 475 ●
- 1 in 112 ◐
across 13 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
2.6M records
Official registry-verified
South Korea
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mann in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 9 more, Man in AR Argentina, HK Hong Kong, MX Mexico, Muñ in CR Costa Rica, PE Peru and Maina in NG Nigeria, BR Brazil.
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.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #24 | 464,047 | 256K rec. | 1 in 112 | 477K | 문 | 126 |
| US United States | #303 | 83,510 | 771K rec. | 1 in 4K | 84K | Mann | 475 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #5 | 75,287 | 19 rec. | — | 14K | Mane | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | #260 | 75,177 | 63K rec. | — | 3 | Mann | 212 |
| MY Malaysia | #129 | 31,832 | 52K rec. | — | — | Mun | 102 |
| AU Australia | #244 | 30,338 | 32K rec. | — | 3 | Mann | 189 |
| DE Germany | #231 | 28,056 | 26K rec. | — | 1 | Mann | 176 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 27,421△ | 191 rec. | 1 in 186 | 27K | Muñ | 15 |
| CA Canada | #243 | 22,931 | 22K rec. | — | 6 | Mann | 175 |
| ES Spain | — | 21,695△ | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Manu | 70 |
| PE Peru | — | 16,392 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Muñ | 32 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 15,742△ | 79 rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | — | 14 |
Roughly 464K people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 112). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi44K59%
- Portuguese8.9K12%
- Bangla7.3K10%
- English5.2K7%
- French2K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 44,063 | 59% |
| Portuguese | 8,898 | 12% |
| Bangla | 7,254 | 10% |
| English | 5,185 | 7% |
| French | 2,048 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1927 | 3 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1935 | 2 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 3 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 7 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1947 | 12 |
| 1948 | 3 |
| 1949 | 3 |
| 1950 | 3 |
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 9 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 9 |
| 1958 | 13 |
| 1959 | 17 |
| 1960 | 12 |
| 1961 | 15 |
| 1962 | 14 |
| 1963 | 14 |
| 1964 | 7 |
| 1965 | 17 |
| 1966 | 21 |
| 1967 | 19 |
| 1968 | 24 |
| 1969 | 13 |
| 1970 | 22 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 23 |
| 1973 | 27 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 17 |
| 1976 | 27 |
| 1977 | 17 |
| 1978 | 24 |
| 1979 | 27 |
| 1980 | 34 |
| 1981 | 25 |
| 1982 | 37 |
| 1983 | 44 |
| 1984 | 35 |
| 1985 | 25 |
| 1986 | 33 |
| 1987 | 38 |
| 1988 | 23 |
| 1989 | 31 |
| 1990 | 42 |
| 1991 | 51 |
| 1992 | 42 |
| 1993 | 33 |
| 1994 | 46 |
| 1995 | 44 |
| 1996 | 22 |
| 1997 | 32 |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 76 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 22 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 727 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 717 | #10,336 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 669 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 530 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 474 | #7,698 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 468 | #14,932 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 460 | #985 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 356 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 240 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 174 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 172 | #41,400 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 139 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 172 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mayna?
- We estimate roughly 644 thousand people bear Mayna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mayna have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 464 thousand people bear Mayna in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 문.
- How common is Mayna compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Mayna is the 24th most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- Is Mayna a male or female name?
- Mayna is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
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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, “Mayna” — the 24th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.