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Manish

The name means "lord of the mind, intellect". In Poland it stays rare and fading: only about 149 men carry it, few enough that most Poles have never met one.

Manish Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
149
National rank
#2660

What Manish means

Where Manish comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Manish comes from Sanskrit, where the word manīṣā means intellect or wisdom. Read as a compound, the name joins manas, the mind, to īśa, a lord or ruler. The short meaning follows from that: lord of the mind, the one who governs his own thought.

The root is old. In Sanskrit texts, manīṣin names a learned person, someone given to reflection, and Manish sits in that same family. The sense of wisdom lives in the word itself. No later story pinned it there.

In Poland the name is uncommon. On a school class register it would stand apart from the Jakubs and the Kacpers, and a clerk at the urząd might pause over the spelling. What stays fixed is the Polish gloss: pan umysłu, mądrość.

How many people are named Manish

1 in 143263 men in Poland is named Manish. 149 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2660 among male names.

People with the name Manish 2019 → 2025
149 +100 since 2019
2020 58 +9
2021 63 +5
2022 71 +8
2023 94 +23
2024 126 +32
2025 149 +23

Manish as a middle name

Manish is a first name for 149 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2658th, between Malte (13) and Marios (13).

As a first name
149
As a middle name
13
first name 92% middle name 8%

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