Meaning not yet researched.
Monica: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 371 in 2025. Its best rank was #39 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #39 in 1977; #737 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Monica in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#737 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #39.
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Monica: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 371 girls in 2025. Peak: #39 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 6,585 (1979).
In 2025, 371 US girls were named Monica, making it the 737th most common girls’ name of the year, down 13 places from #724 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 390 girls named Monica in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #39, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,585, in 1979. For comparison, it was #559 in 2015 and #231 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Monica in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 252,257 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 62,005 babies named Monica.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,307 US girls were named Monica; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 522. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,332 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Monica ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #469 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Monique (79,160 babies since 1880), Mona (45,818 babies since 1880) and Monika (9,810 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Moneka, Monaca and Monicka are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Monna and Monnie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Berber, Dutch, Italian, Latin and Punic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Moneka (266), Monaca (87), Monicka (66), Monnica (66), Moneca (33), Monyca (12), Moneika (6), Monyka (5), Monikah (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 8 | #469 | #655 |
| Washington | 13 | #533 | #683 |
| Florida | 33 | #551 | #532 |
| California | 59 | #554 | #399 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #596 | #539 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #605 | #448 |
| Virginia | 12 | #646 | #830 |
| Illinois | 15 | #653 | #523 |
| Kansas | 5 | #659 | #717 |
| Colorado | 8 | #687 | #676 |
| Texas | 43 | #709 | #419 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #723 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #731 | #508 |
| Ohio | 12 | #781 | #1,134 |
| Indiana | 8 | #784 | #751 |
| Utah | 5 | #799 | #694 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #806 | #539 |
| Maryland | 6 | #809 | #521 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #878 | #853 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #886 | #513 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #886 | #611 |
| Missouri | 6 | #892 | #918 |
| Arizona | 6 | #998 | #596 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,044 | #654 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,081 | #593 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,356 | #706 |
| New York | 10 | #1,389 | #703 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 371 | #737 | — | — |
| 2024 | 390 | #724 | — | — |
| 2023 | 386 | #729 | — | — |
| 2022 | 389 | #744 | — | — |
| 2021 | 415 | #695 | — | — |
| 2020 | 404 | #697 | — | — |
| 2019 | 459 | #638 | — | — |
| 2018 | 498 | #608 | — | — |
| 2017 | 473 | #626 | — | — |
| 2016 | 522 | #587 | — | — |
| 2015 | 557 | #559 | — | — |
| 2014 | 577 | #539 | — | — |
| 2013 | 597 | #504 | — | — |
| 2012 | 724 | #431 | — | — |
| 2011 | 780 | #404 | — | — |
| 2010 | 887 | #361 | — | — |
| 2009 | 972 | #339 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,064 | #317 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,192 | #285 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,363 | #248 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,409 | #238 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,512 | #225 | 9 | #7,972 |
| 2003 | 1,613 | #207 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,778 | #180 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,796 | #182 | 6 | #10,122 |
| 2000 | 1,991 | #167 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,134 | #151 | — | — |
| 1998 | 3,230 | #105 | 13 | #5,089 |
| 1997 | 4,223 | #79 | 9 | #6,446 |
| 1996 | 4,326 | #82 | 17 | #3,965 |
| 1995 | 3,970 | #87 | 12 | #5,013 |
| 1994 | 3,912 | #88 | 21 | #3,299 |
| 1993 | 3,901 | #86 | 24 | #2,918 |
| 1992 | 4,590 | #77 | 24 | #2,898 |
| 1991 | 4,156 | #85 | 26 | #2,660 |
| 1990 | 4,453 | #76 | 19 | #3,267 |
| 1989 | 4,502 | #68 | 36 | #2,017 |
| 1988 | 4,463 | #70 | 26 | #2,340 |
| 1987 | 4,809 | #64 | 33 | #1,926 |
| 1986 | 5,013 | #59 | 37 | #1,714 |
| 1985 | 4,990 | #61 | 28 | #2,050 |
| 1984 | 5,131 | #58 | 26 | #2,082 |
| 1983 | 5,405 | #54 | 36 | #1,645 |
| 1982 | 5,734 | #52 | 39 | #1,584 |
| 1981 | 5,782 | #49 | 31 | #1,845 |
| 1980 | 6,034 | #45 | 43 | #1,462 |
| 1979 | 6,585 | #40 | 34 | #1,698 |
| 1978 | 5,867 | #42 | 31 | #1,743 |
| 1977 | 6,366 | #39 | 32 | #1,696 |
| 1976 | 5,978 | #45 | 34 | #1,593 |
| 1975 | 5,476 | #49 | 33 | #1,585 |
| 1974 | 6,281 | #43 | 30 | #1,645 |
| 1973 | 6,380 | #40 | 42 | #1,285 |
| 1972 | 6,133 | #47 | 26 | #1,754 |
| 1971 | 6,426 | #48 | 30 | #1,624 |
| 1970 | 6,188 | #56 | 33 | #1,486 |
| 1969 | 6,032 | #59 | 26 | #1,629 |
| 1968 | 5,221 | #68 | 8 | #3,282 |
| 1967 | 4,966 | #70 | 8 | #3,160 |
| 1966 | 4,722 | #75 | 12 | #2,415 |
| 1965 | 5,113 | #72 | 15 | #2,142 |
| 1964 | 4,655 | #90 | 14 | #2,279 |
| 1963 | 3,994 | #110 | 10 | #2,799 |
| 1962 | 4,010 | #115 | 11 | #2,623 |
| 1961 | 3,391 | #136 | 12 | #2,496 |
| 1960 | 3,088 | #140 | 8 | #3,250 |
| 1959 | 2,594 | #160 | 7 | #3,491 |
| 1958 | 2,414 | #160 | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1957 | 2,491 | #151 | — | — |
| 1956 | 2,162 | #169 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,817 | #182 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,823 | #181 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,600 | #193 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,464 | #197 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,298 | #209 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,059 | #231 | — | — |
| 1949 | 826 | #266 | — | — |
| 1948 | 847 | #262 | 5 | #4,020 |
| 1947 | 615 | #311 | — | — |
| 1946 | 457 | #355 | — | — |
| 1945 | 400 | #339 | — | — |
| 1944 | 342 | #383 | — | — |
| 1943 | 299 | #426 | — | — |
| 1942 | 325 | #398 | — | — |
| 1941 | 261 | #425 | — | — |
| 1940 | 285 | #409 | — | — |
| 1939 | 256 | #425 | — | — |
| 1938 | 269 | #409 | — | — |
| 1937 | 292 | #380 | — | — |
| 1936 | 273 | #387 | — | — |
| 1935 | 332 | #352 | — | — |
| 1934 | 259 | #407 | — | — |
| 1933 | 213 | #440 | — | — |
| 1932 | 215 | #451 | — | — |
| 1931 | 192 | #468 | — | — |
| 1930 | 168 | #522 | — | — |
| 1929 | 182 | #500 | — | — |
| 1928 | 218 | #467 | — | — |
| 1927 | 189 | #512 | — | — |
| 1926 | 190 | #507 | — | — |
| 1925 | 198 | #500 | — | — |
| 1924 | 223 | #467 | — | — |
| 1923 | 199 | #494 | — | — |
| 1922 | 206 | #480 | — | — |
| 1921 | 247 | #434 | — | — |
| 1920 | 215 | #462 | — | — |
| 1919 | 178 | #509 | — | — |
| 1918 | 223 | #444 | — | — |
| 1917 | 252 | #399 | — | — |
| 1916 | 278 | #373 | — | — |
| 1915 | 196 | #437 | — | — |
| 1914 | 156 | #439 | — | — |
| 1913 | 164 | #378 | — | — |
| 1912 | 130 | #409 | — | — |
| 1911 | 83 | #449 | — | — |
| 1910 | 79 | #454 | — | — |
| 1909 | 71 | #441 | — | — |
| 1908 | 62 | #460 | — | — |
| 1907 | 61 | #460 | — | — |
| 1906 | 52 | #475 | — | — |
| 1905 | 53 | #470 | — | — |
| 1904 | 54 | #441 | — | — |
| 1903 | 36 | #547 | — | — |
| 1902 | 33 | #581 | — | — |
| 1901 | 44 | #450 | — | — |
| 1900 | 39 | #553 | — | — |
| 1899 | 30 | #561 | — | — |
| 1898 | 41 | #482 | — | — |
| 1897 | 34 | #504 | — | — |
| 1896 | 36 | #496 | — | — |
| 1895 | 20 | #719 | — | — |
| 1894 | 22 | #639 | — | — |
| 1893 | 25 | #566 | — | — |
| 1892 | 27 | #537 | — | — |
| 1891 | 25 | #519 | — | — |
| 1890 | 17 | #661 | — | — |
| 1889 | 14 | #710 | — | — |
| 1888 | 13 | #744 | — | — |
| 1887 | 13 | #652 | — | — |
| 1886 | 10 | #759 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #728 | — | — |
| 1884 | 8 | #833 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #572 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #813 | — | — |
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).