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Man name meaning

Last Name
4k
in the U.S.
in 2010
Girls
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Meaning and Origin

What does the name Man mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.

Origin and Meaning of Man

User Submitted Origins

English
64%
German
18%
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
9%
Hebrew
9%

User Submitted Meanings

  1. A submission from New York, U.S. says the name Man means "a grown male".
  2. A user from New Zealand says the name Man is of Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) origin and means "Male".
  3. A submission from the United Kingdom says the name Man means "A grown up boy" and is of English origin.
  4. According to a user from Singapore, the name Man means "king".
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Man
Senses
  1. A human being; -- opposed to beast."These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one." [R. of Glouc.]"The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me." [Shak.]"'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast!" [W. C. Fields]
  2. Especially:An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child."When I became a man, I put away childish things." [I Cor. xiii. 11.]"Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man." [Dryden.]
  3. The human race; mankind."And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion." [Gen. i. 26.]"The proper study of mankind is man." [Pope.]
  4. The male portion of the human race."Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties." [Cowper.]
  5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind."This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world “This was a man!”" [Shak.]
  6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject."Like master, like man." [Old Proverb.]"The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor." [Blackstone.]
  7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the latter half of the 20th century it became used in a broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of address, but is not used in business or formal situations; as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.(Informal)
  8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife."I pronounce that they are man and wife." [Book of Com. Prayer.]"every wife ought to answer for her man." [Addison.]
  9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun."A man can not make him laugh." [Shak.]"A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship." [Addison.]
  10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing manthief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ash man, butter man, laundry man, lumber man, milk man, fire man, repair man, show man, water man, wood man. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood manas distinguished from wood man).

Etymology: AS. mann man monn mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel. maðr, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr. manu manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind. √104. Cf. Minx a pert girl

verb Man
Senses
  1. To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort."See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !" [Shak.]"They man their boats, and all their young men arm." [Waller.]
  2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify."Theodosius having mannedhis soul with proper reflections." [Addison.]
  3. To tame, as a hawk.(R)
  4. To furnish with a servant or servants.(Obs)
  5. To wait on as a manservant.(Obs)

Note: ☞ In “Othello,” V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain, being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage.

Other Dictionary Sources
  1. Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
  2. All of the living human inhabitants of the earth ("she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women")
  3. Game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
  4. One of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
  5. An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
  6. A male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman ("she takes good care of her man")
  7. An adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent) ("the army will make a man of you")
  8. The generic use of the word to refer to any human being ("it was every man for himself")
  9. A male subordinate ("he awaited word from his man in Havana")
  10. Someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
  11. A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer ("Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man")
  12. Provide with workers ("We cannot man all the desks" and "Students were manning the booths")
  13. Take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place ("Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning")
Wiktionary

From man

  1. The genus Homo.
  2. (poetic) Humankind in general.

From Old Irish Mana, from Proto-Celtic *moniyos, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”).

  1. The Isle of Man.

From Cantonese 文 (man4).

  1. A surname​ of Chinese origin.

From Cantonese 萬/万 (maan6).

  1. A surname​ of Chinese origin.

    Man was also found in the following language(s): Dutch, North Frisian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Tagalog

    Notable Persons Named Man

    Notable Persons Named Man

    Man Ray

    Man Ray was an artist in the fields of painting, photography, assemblage (art), and collage. Man was given the name Emmanuel Radnitzky on August 27th, 1890 in Philadelphia. He left this life on November 18th, 1976.

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    Man with no name

    Man with no name is a bounty hunter/bounty killer and bounty hunter. Man is also known as The Stranger, The Hunter, The Bounty Killer, Mister Sudden Death, Señor Ninguno, Nameless, and No Name.

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    Man Haron Monis

    Man was given the name Mohammad-Hassan Manteghi Borujerdi on May 19th, 1964 in Borujerd. Man is also known as Haron, Sheikh; Boroujerdi, and Mohammad-Hassan Manteghi (birth name). He passed away on December 16th, 2014.

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    Man Singh I

    Man Singh I was royalty. He holds the title Raja of Amer and RajaofAmer. Man was born as the child of Bhagwant Das on December 21st, 1550 in Amer, India. He died on July 6th, 1614.

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    Man of Miracles

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    Man Singh

    He breathed his last breath in 1955.

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    Notable Persons With the Last Name Man

    Notable Persons With the Last Name Man

    Method Man

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    Ip Man

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    Purple Man

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    Wong Jack Man

    Wong Jack Man is a martial artist. Wong was born in Hong Kong.

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    Big Boss Man

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    Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

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    Common first names for Man

    Ethnicity Distribution

    Ethnicity Man U.S.
      White 22.27% 64.26%
      African American 2.99% 11.96%
      Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander 67.48% 4.85%
      American Indian and Alaska Native 0.20% 0.69%
      Two or More Ethnicities 2.57% 1.76%
      Hispanic or Latino 4.49% 16.26%

    Of Last Name Man

    People with the last name Man are most frequently White or Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander

    Entire United States

    Fun Facts about the name Man

  1. How Popular is the name Man? Man is the 21,974th most popular name of all time. As a last name Man was the 8,266th most popular name in 2010.
  2. How many people with the first name Man have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2019, the Social Security Administration has recorded 312 babies born with the first name Man in the United States. That's more than enough people named Man to occupy the territory of Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) with an estimated population of 66 (as of July 1, 2008).
  3. What year were 5 or more babies first named Man? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1884 when it was given as a first name to 5 new born babies.
  4. When was Man first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Man is Saturday, June 24th, 1876.
  5. What year had the most people named Man born? The highest recorded use of the first name Man was in 2016 with a total of 16 babies.
  6. Random Man Factoid: According to the 1991 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Man is not a popular baby boy's name in New York. Imagine that, only 5 babies in New York have the same name in 1991.
  7. Weird things about the name Man: The name spelled backwards is Nam. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Man. How do you pronounce that?
  8. How many people have the last name Man? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 4,010 people with the last name Man.
  9. How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Man? If you manage to meet 100,000 people in your life, chances are that 1 of them will have Man as their last name.
  10. Man name meaning

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