Meaning not yet researched.
Monika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #707 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #707 in 1978; #6,478 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Monika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,478 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #707.
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Monika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #707 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 257 (1996).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Monika, making it the 6,478th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,810 places from #8,288 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 13 girls named Monika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #707, reached in 1978. The most girls given the name in a single year was 257, in 1996. For comparison, it was #3,421 in 2015 and #4,215 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Monika in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 5 babies. In all, 9,810 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,280 babies named Monika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 302 US girls were named Monika; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Monica (252,257 babies since 1880), Monique (79,160 babies since 1880) and Mona (45,818 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Moneeka 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 Czech, Dutch, Estonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Moneeka (23).
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 Monika in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,478 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,288 | — | — |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,867 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,357 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,238 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,740 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,505 | — | — |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,307 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,629 | — | — |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 2000 | 151 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1999 | 133 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1998 | 224 | #931 | — | — |
| 1997 | 246 | #840 | — | — |
| 1996 | 257 | #801 | — | — |
| 1995 | 238 | #827 | — | — |
| 1994 | 203 | #930 | — | — |
| 1993 | 254 | #798 | — | — |
| 1992 | 216 | #908 | — | — |
| 1991 | 252 | #817 | — | — |
| 1990 | 257 | #785 | — | — |
| 1989 | 221 | #848 | — | — |
| 1988 | 250 | #753 | — | — |
| 1987 | 250 | #724 | — | — |
| 1986 | 243 | #733 | — | — |
| 1985 | 172 | #922 | — | — |
| 1984 | 170 | #886 | — | — |
| 1983 | 222 | #737 | — | — |
| 1982 | 190 | #827 | — | — |
| 1981 | 231 | #716 | — | — |
| 1980 | 213 | #775 | — | — |
| 1979 | 202 | #788 | — | — |
| 1978 | 224 | #707 | — | — |
| 1977 | 214 | #723 | — | — |
| 1976 | 195 | #746 | — | — |
| 1975 | 161 | #838 | — | — |
| 1974 | 173 | #789 | — | — |
| 1973 | 179 | #758 | — | — |
| 1972 | 177 | #776 | — | — |
| 1971 | 188 | #775 | — | — |
| 1970 | 153 | #873 | — | — |
| 1969 | 151 | #844 | — | — |
| 1968 | 154 | #819 | — | — |
| 1967 | 158 | #792 | — | — |
| 1966 | 159 | #780 | — | — |
| 1965 | 126 | #897 | — | — |
| 1964 | 117 | #986 | — | — |
| 1963 | 124 | #952 | — | — |
| 1962 | 122 | #965 | — | — |
| 1961 | 124 | #970 | — | — |
| 1960 | 102 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1959 | 81 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1958 | 71 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,215 | — | — |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,148 | — | — |
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).