Mona

Where Mona comes from

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. The Arabic and Persian name مُنىٰ (munā) is sometimes Romanised as Mona.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mona
  • Irish
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #449 among girls — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1950
    Peak, #230
    1,088 babies named Mona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    Mona Sahlin born
    Swedish politician
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #448.
  5. 1990
    Mona Barthel born
    German tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Mona Barthel · German tennis player, born 1990
  • Mona Sahlin · Swedish politician, born 1957
  • Mona Eltahawy · Egyptian-American journalist, born 1967
  • Mona Simpson · American novelist, born 1957
  • Mona Hatoum · Palestinian sculptor and installation artist, born 1952

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.