Given name & surname · also Italian
Mandala
Mandala is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Telugu. It is used in English and German.
Original ItalianMandalà
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mandala comes from Italian, and ultimately from Telugu.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mandala through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 755 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.
Mandala’s family of names
In English usage, Mandala as a surname was borrowed from the Italian form Mandalà. In Greek usage, Mandala as a surname is a transliteration of Μανδάλα. In Greek usage, Mandala as a surname is a transliteration of Μανδαλά.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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