Monica

What Monica means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Monica yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #559 in 2015 to #736 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Monica?

US: Falling: down from #559 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #794 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1973, when 6,380 girls got the name (#40 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,332 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,742 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (0.61 per 1,000 girls), WA (0.45 per 1,000 girls), KS (0.42 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Monica is #736 in the US and #1229 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Monica were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Monika18 US · 6 E&W
• Monaco13 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Monika

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Monica

Girls

• Amanda#493“to love”^*
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*
• Laura#379“laurel tree”^*
• Gloria#654“glory”^*
• Priscilla#544“former, ancient, old-fashioned”^*
• Rosa#652“rose”^*

For a brother

• Mark#244Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025
• Paul#262“small”^*
• Martin#335“of or like Mars”^*
• Justin#233“just”^*
• Marcus#258Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 5,996 babies; 1,341 in 2025
• Lawrence#518Editor’s note Down from #499 in 2015 to #518 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Monica’s. Rank is US 2025.