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Mansur

#7,490 in 2025Boys' name

Victorious, supported

Mansur has been given to 258 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #7,490 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Mansur, 2025

1 in 301,000

Mansur over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mansur: meaning, origin, and history

Victorious, supported

Arabic

What Mansur means

Mansur means “victorious, supported”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Arabic مَنْصُور (manṣūr). Doublet of Mansour.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mansur (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Mansur is used in English and Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Mansur comes through Arabic مَنْصُور.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include مَنْصُور and Mansour.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Mansur is pronounced /ˈman.sur/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 258 boys were recorded with the name Mansur between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2012; its best national rank was #4,419 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,242 in 2020 to #7,490 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,591 in 2015 to #7,490 in 2025.

How common is Mansur?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,490
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mansur sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mansur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mansurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mansur was born before 2010 — so the typical Mansur is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
258
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Mansur rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+4,346
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,752
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,101
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 2012 (13)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,419
1984

Spellings of Mansur

Mansur is not the most common spelling — Manson is, with 33.4% against Mansur's 10.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mansur around the world

Where Mansur ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2022
    #6,116
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Mansur by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,490
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,752
Best rank ever
#4,419
1984
Peak year
2012
13 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
258
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Mansur

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ManvirManoahManvikManrajMannixManveerManasesMansaManasMansoorMansourMancelManselManoloManavManjotMangManishMandeepManceMancilMandelMandellManoj

Sibling names for Mansur

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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