Meaning not yet researched.
Mona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #230 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #230 in 1950; #2,806 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,806 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #230.
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Mona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #230 in 1950 · most girls in one year: 1,231 (1957).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Mona, making it the 2,806th most common girls’ name of the year, down 592 places from #2,214 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 86 girls named Mona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #230, reached in 1950. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,231, in 1957. For comparison, it was #1,903 in 2015 and #230 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mona in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 14 babies with the name. In all, 45,818 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 11,181 babies named Mona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 972 US girls were named Mona; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mona ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,029 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Monica (252,257 babies since 1880), Monika (9,810 babies since 1880), Monae (2,291 babies since 1880) and Moana (1,146 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Monna, Muna and Monay are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic, Dutch, Italian and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Monna (1,385), Muna (1,303), Monay (526), Monia (366), Monai (184), Monaye (65), Mouna (58), Moona (30), Mohana (23), Moanna (18), Moena (16), Monaya (12), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mona in the open dataset we use.
Mona is listed as a nickname for Ramona.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #1,029 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,092 | — |
| California | 10 | #2,047 | #1,520 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 2021 | 97 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2017 | 116 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2015 | 107 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 2014 | 97 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 2008 | 92 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1998 | 111 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1996 | 151 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1994 | 101 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1992 | 129 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1991 | 154 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1990 | 127 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1989 | 140 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1988 | 142 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1987 | 139 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1986 | 163 | #971 | — | — |
| 1985 | 154 | #993 | — | — |
| 1984 | 123 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1983 | 152 | #966 | — | — |
| 1982 | 165 | #916 | — | — |
| 1981 | 181 | #861 | — | — |
| 1980 | 157 | #951 | — | — |
| 1979 | 190 | #826 | — | — |
| 1978 | 236 | #678 | — | — |
| 1977 | 218 | #713 | — | — |
| 1976 | 258 | #608 | — | — |
| 1975 | 269 | #599 | — | — |
| 1974 | 305 | #551 | — | — |
| 1973 | 365 | #487 | — | — |
| 1972 | 454 | #427 | — | — |
| 1971 | 459 | #449 | — | — |
| 1970 | 633 | #377 | — | — |
| 1969 | 691 | #341 | 5 | #4,809 |
| 1968 | 608 | #367 | — | — |
| 1967 | 681 | #338 | 5 | #4,358 |
| 1966 | 903 | #281 | — | — |
| 1965 | 874 | #305 | — | — |
| 1964 | 890 | #309 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,009 | #290 | — | — |
| 1962 | 968 | #296 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,090 | #277 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,081 | #276 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,183 | #255 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,090 | #265 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,231 | #242 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,187 | #240 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,093 | #249 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,192 | #233 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,061 | #249 | — | — |
| 1952 | 950 | #255 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,106 | #232 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,088 | #230 | — | — |
| 1949 | 513 | #341 | — | — |
| 1948 | 455 | #369 | — | — |
| 1947 | 446 | #379 | — | — |
| 1946 | 427 | #365 | — | — |
| 1945 | 366 | #364 | — | — |
| 1944 | 342 | #382 | — | — |
| 1943 | 359 | #384 | — | — |
| 1942 | 418 | #340 | — | — |
| 1941 | 444 | #307 | — | — |
| 1940 | 470 | #292 | — | — |
| 1939 | 523 | #270 | 6 | #3,367 |
| 1938 | 641 | #250 | — | — |
| 1937 | 623 | #253 | 5 | #3,868 |
| 1936 | 656 | #243 | — | — |
| 1935 | 670 | #243 | 5 | #3,999 |
| 1934 | 635 | #246 | — | — |
| 1933 | 614 | #244 | 5 | #3,997 |
| 1932 | 613 | #249 | — | — |
| 1931 | 496 | #280 | — | — |
| 1930 | 540 | #276 | — | — |
| 1929 | 499 | #291 | — | — |
| 1928 | 422 | #324 | — | — |
| 1927 | 376 | #346 | — | — |
| 1926 | 369 | #348 | — | — |
| 1925 | 322 | #379 | — | — |
| 1924 | 329 | #377 | — | — |
| 1923 | 292 | #389 | — | — |
| 1922 | 274 | #400 | — | — |
| 1921 | 301 | #386 | — | — |
| 1920 | 262 | #411 | — | — |
| 1919 | 253 | #406 | — | — |
| 1918 | 245 | #423 | — | — |
| 1917 | 313 | #355 | — | — |
| 1916 | 253 | #395 | — | — |
| 1915 | 265 | #370 | — | — |
| 1914 | 212 | #362 | — | — |
| 1913 | 174 | #366 | — | — |
| 1912 | 156 | #372 | — | — |
| 1911 | 105 | #393 | — | — |
| 1910 | 101 | #394 | — | — |
| 1909 | 87 | #394 | — | — |
| 1908 | 85 | #396 | — | — |
| 1907 | 70 | #430 | — | — |
| 1906 | 71 | #407 | — | — |
| 1905 | 80 | #379 | — | — |
| 1904 | 73 | #389 | — | — |
| 1903 | 59 | #411 | — | — |
| 1902 | 55 | #418 | — | — |
| 1901 | 42 | #464 | — | — |
| 1900 | 69 | #400 | — | — |
| 1899 | 57 | #385 | — | — |
| 1898 | 61 | #393 | — | — |
| 1897 | 59 | #378 | — | — |
| 1896 | 56 | #380 | — | — |
| 1895 | 53 | #388 | — | — |
| 1894 | 54 | #383 | — | — |
| 1893 | 58 | #355 | — | — |
| 1892 | 47 | #389 | — | — |
| 1891 | 44 | #382 | — | — |
| 1890 | 33 | #458 | — | — |
| 1889 | 29 | #463 | — | — |
| 1888 | 32 | #441 | — | — |
| 1887 | 22 | #486 | — | — |
| 1886 | 31 | #391 | — | — |
| 1885 | 17 | #533 | — | — |
| 1884 | 18 | #495 | — | — |
| 1883 | 16 | #493 | — | — |
| 1882 | 11 | #590 | — | — |
| 1881 | 14 | #466 | — | — |
| 1880 | 14 | #463 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).