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Mankirat

Gender
Unisex
Say it
mun-KIR-at
Origin
Punjabi
UK rank, 2025
#2,342 for boys

Mankirat is a name of Punjabi origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,342nd for boys in the UK (10 babies).

Where does Mankirat come from?

Punjabi: Sikh name: man 'mind, heart' + kirat

Is Mankirat a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Mankirat has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 10 boys in the UK.

How popular is Mankirat in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,342nd among boys
Babies in 2025
10 about 1 in 30,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising up 93% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the UK were named Mankirat, making it the 2,342nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,025th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 14 boys. 5 girls were also named Mankirat in 2025 (4,276th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Mankirat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

Girls were 50% of the babies named Mankirat in the UK in 2016, and 33% in 2025.

Among boys in 2025, it was 2,265th in England and Wales.

2016Busiest: 14 in 20212025
Mankirat in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#2,342
202410#2,328
20237#2,965
20228#2,678
202114#1,791
20204#4,025
20193#4,913
20187#2,823
201710#2,306
20165#3,655

Names like Mankirat

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Mankirat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mankirat, updated 20 October 2026.