Given name & surname
Mansour
“one who is victorious with God's help”
Mansour is a variant of Mansur. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is victorious with God's help.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mansour is a variant of Mansur. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is victorious with God's help.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mansour is a variant of Mansur. An origin associated with Mansur is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Arabic مَنْصُور; its root is Arabic ن ص ر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mansour through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 411
- 411 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,414 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −21%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,414 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 20.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 23 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,529 as a first name in 2020; 7,278 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.
Mansour’s family of names
In English usage, Mansour shares an earlier linguistic root with Mansur. In English usage, Mansour as a surname has a related form in MANZOOR. Mansour has a related form in Mansur.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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.
People named Mansour
- Al-HallajPersian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher (c.858–922)
- Al-Mustansir I36th and Penultimate Abbasid Caliph (r. 1226–1242)1192–1242
- Al-Rashid BillahAbbasid caliph in Baghdad (r. 1135–1136)1109–1138
- Mansour bin Zayed Al NahyanEmirati royal and politicianborn 1970
- Mansour AbbasArab-Israeli dentist and politicianborn 1974
- Mansour BahramiIranian-French tennis playerborn 1956
- Mansour OjjehSaudi Arabian businessman1952–2021
- Mansour Al-ThagafiSaudi Arabian footballerborn 1979
- Mansour BarzegarIranian wrestlerborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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