Mona
The girl's name Mona has been in the national records since 1880, with 45,818 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,778th. About 29,000 Monas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mona boys named Mona
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 45,818
- Estimated living today
- 29,000
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 242nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,778th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 45,787 / 31
How old the living Monas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 45,818 babies given the name since 1880, about 29,000 are alive — 63 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 14,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish
Anglicized from Irish and Scottish Gaelic Muadhnait, from Middle Irish múad (“noble”). In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular, Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of Monica or rarely, of Ramona, and sometimes associated with the title of da Vinci's painting Mona (=madonna) Lisa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Monas
- Mona Barthel (born 1990)German tennis player
- Mona Sahlin (born 1957)Swedish politician
- Mona Eltahawy (born 1967)Egyptian-American journalist
- Mona Hatoum (born 1952)Palestinian sculptor and installation artist
- Mona Simpson (born 1957)American novelist
- Mona Singh (born 1981)Indian actress
- Mona Malm (1935–2021)Swedish actress
- Mona Brorsson (born 1990)Swedish female biathlete
People named Mona with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mona is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mona is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.8×), Maine (2.3×), Hawaii (2.1×), West Virginia (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Mona peaked:
Mona elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Mona | 12,936 | 10th |
| France girls | Mona | 6,840 | 211th |
| Belgium girls | Mona | 2,847 | 30th |
| Switzerland girls | Mona | 1,006 | 125th |
| England and Wales girls | Mona | 428 | 1,065th |
| Ireland girls | Mona | 106 | 282nd |
| Scotland girls | Mona | 12 | 539th |
| Poland girls | Mona | 5 birth registrations | 567th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mona: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Mona | 913 | 0.073% | 95th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mona | 86 | 0.020% | 196th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mona | 1 | 0.002% | 200th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Mona | 6 | 0.161% | 14th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mona is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.12% of children were given it – 67 of them.
Mona: rank by region
In 2025, Mona was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mona | 13 | 150 |
| Wallonia | Mona | 264 | 10 |
| Brussels | Mona | 194 | 6 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mona appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (12th), Province of Flemish Brabant (16th), Province of West Flanders (20th), Province of Antwerp (24th), Province of Limburg (25th), Province of Hainaut (153rd) and Brussels-Capital Region (194th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mona by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 113 | 144th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mona among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Mona | 2,205 | 2,537 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mona lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 287 women called Mona were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Mona | 17 | 0.029 | 2,567 |
| Balears, Illes | Mona | 17 | 0.027 | 1,987 |
| Tarragona | Mona | 12 | 0.027 | 1,912 |
| Málaga | Mona | 21 | 0.023 | 1,983 |
| Almería | Mona | 7 | 0.019 | 2,416 |
| Toledo | Mona | 7 | 0.019 | 2,121 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mona against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.