Given name & surname · also Tagalog
Mando
Mando is a masculine given name from Tagalog, ultimately from Spanish. It is used in Tagalog and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mando comes from Tagalog, and ultimately from Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Cebuano usage, Mando is a diminutive of Armando.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mando through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 107
- 107 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 8 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 boys is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 368 as a first name in 2020; 332 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.
Mando’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Mando is a diminutive of Armando.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Mando
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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