Manana is from the Georgian მანანა (Manana — manna) — from foundational Hebrew manna (biblical heavenly food). A modern American baby name in the broader Georgian-Caucasian heritage aesthetic. Manana is one of the foundational Georgian feminine names — central to traditional Georgian Orthodox Christian heritage. Notable bearer: Manana Mengelia — foundational Georgian-Soviet chess Grandmaster + Women's Soviet Chess Championship winner + foundational figure in foundational Soviet-Georgian women's chess heritage; Manana Tevdoradze — foundational Georgian politician + Member of Parliament of Georgia. Foundational subject of foundational Georgian-Soviet artistic heritage + foundational Tbilisi cultural revival. Foundational Georgian feminine name reflecting Georgian Orthodox heritage spanning foundational Caucasian Christian cultural identity.
Featured throughout Georgian heritage.
Manana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Manana reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.