Is anyone actually called Manus??

[BarbaraVineFan]

I’ve just finished watching Amandaland, and the boys’ names are really bothering me! Darius Is one thing (although I really don’t think Anne’s character would have named her son Darius) but MANUS?!

and also… the siblings don’t even match. If it’s supposed to be a ridiculously pretentious name, then why isn’t Amanda’s daughter named Calliope or something, not Georgie? Does anyone have any answers?

Fairly popular Irish name, men in their fifties as people have said above.
My schoolfriend's brother was Manus McManus. I think he went by the name Mick in general life.

Yeah I had a boss years ago called Manus, he’d be retired now

I know quite a few Mortens but they're all Danish

I don’t know a manus but in Latin it means hand. There used to be two types of marriage in Roman times cum manu when you came under the authority of your husband and sine manu when you legally stayed under the authority of your father.

Despite if being several thousand years ago it still irritates me that women were seen as being the property of men. Also that it continues today.

I knew a Manus in Ireland. He’ll be in his forties now.

Manus is not unusual in Ireland, especially amongst older men.

I agree that Darius is a strange choice for Anne, especially with Niamh. I can see her with a son called Cillian, or Conor.

I know an Irish Manus

I've just been watching this for the first time and totally agree. No one would follow Darius with Niamh either! Even a Conor or Seán or something would have done.

Maybe fictional Anne was a fan of Darius Danesh?

i know at least one manus / nice bloke

Indeed it was - I thought it was obvious, but apparently not!

I assumed that's who Anne's son was named for!

I used to work with a Manus, an Irish doctor. He'd be pushing 60 now.

It's also an Afrikaans name, short for Hermanus, which made it sound really weird to me in the context of Amanda! I didn't realise it was Irish.

Please tell me you've watched Motherland before watching Amandaland 🙏

Makes me think of Manu Chao

@StrongLikeMamma , he is José Manuel Tomás Arturo Chao Ortega.

I teach one. Of Irish extraction, late teens.

I worked with a lad who was called Manus a few years ago. He was around 18/19. He went off to Uni and changed his name to something else.

I was just going to say his family aren't Irish but actually his Grandparents do have English accents but an Irish surname.

I haven't met anyone with the name Manus, but like previous posters wrote, there are people with that name.
I have met people with the last name McManus, though.

Slightly different name, but Magnus is a common name in my home country Sweden. It's popular to combine it with the name Carl, Carl Magnus, Carl-Magnus, Karl Magnus, etc.