Given name & surname
Manan
“contemplation, deliberation, pondering”
Manan is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “contemplation, deliberation, pondering.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Manan means “contemplation, deliberation, pondering.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit मनन (“contemplation, deliberation, pondering”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Manan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 309
- 309 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −3%
- Steady
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 868 as a first name in 2020; 277 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Manan’s family of names
In English usage, Manan has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form मनन. In Hindi usage, Manan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of मनन.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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