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
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.
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).
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#2656 Malek13
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#2657 Malte13
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#2658 Manish13
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#2659 Marios13
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#2660 Marsel13