Monika
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 224 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,810since 1942
Monika over time
Rank among girls' names. Monika has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2016 | #3,464 | 45 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 |
| 2013 | #2,936 | 57 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 |
| 2011 | #2,763 | 63 |
| 2010 | #2,562 | 71 |
| 2009 | #2,425 | 79 |
| 2008 | #2,062 | 99 |
| 2007 | #1,929 | 107 |
| 2006 | #1,771 | 117 |
| 2005 | #1,819 | 107 |
| 2004 | #1,667 | 116 |
| 2003 | #1,858 | 99 |
| 2002 | #1,535 | 123 |
| 2001 | #1,444 | 130 |
| 2000 | #1,280 | 151 |
| 1999 | #1,336 | 133 |
| 1998 | #930 | 224 |
| 1997 | #839 | 246 |
| 1996 | #800 | 257 |
| 1995 | #826 | 238 |
| 1994 | #929 | 203 |
| 1993 | #798 | 254 |
| 1992 | #904 | 216 |
| 1991 | #811 | 252 |
| 1990 | #783 | 257 |
| 1989 | #844 | 221 |
| 1988 | #751 | 250 |
| 1987 | #722 | 250 |
| 1986 | #732 | 243 |
| 1985 | #919 | 172 |
| 1984 | #883 | 170 |
| 1983 | #736 | 222 |
| 1982 | #824 | 190 |
| 1981 | #716 | 231 |
| 1980 | #772 | 213 |
| 1979 | #785 | 202 |
| 1978 | #705 | 224 |
| 1977 | #721 | 214 |
| 1976 | #746 | 195 |
| 1975 | #833 | 161 |
| 1974 | #787 | 173 |
| 1973 | #758 | 179 |
| 1972 | #775 | 177 |
| 1971 | #772 | 188 |
| 1970 | #871 | 153 |
| 1969 | #844 | 151 |
| 1968 | #817 | 154 |
| 1967 | #792 | 158 |
| 1966 | #778 | 159 |
| 1965 | #894 | 126 |
| 1964 | #982 | 117 |
| 1963 | #947 | 124 |
| 1962 | #960 | 122 |
| 1961 | #968 | 124 |
| 1960 | #1,063 | 102 |
| 1959 | #1,184 | 81 |
| 1958 | #1,260 | 71 |
| 1957 | #1,442 | 54 |
| 1956 | #1,533 | 48 |
| 1955 | #1,774 | 35 |
| 1954 | #1,739 | 35 |
| 1953 | #2,699 | 16 |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
| 1949 | #2,514 | 16 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Monika! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Monika is popular in 1965
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#591 · 1 in 7,693
- California#666 · 1 in 7,029
- Michigan#701 · 1 in 10,544
- New York#702 · 1 in 9,042
- Pennsylvania#742 · 1 in 13,282
Best ever in a state: #163 in Nevada, 1971.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #591 | 7 | 1 in 7,693 |
| California | #666 | 23 | 1 in 7,029 |
| Michigan | #701 | 7 | 1 in 10,544 |
| New York | #702 | 17 | 1 in 9,042 |
| Pennsylvania | #742 | 7 | 1 in 13,282 |
| Illinois | #750 | 9 | 1 in 10,143 |
| Ohio | #766 | 7 | 1 in 12,577 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Monika
- 1,642 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #6,325)
- 2,156 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #6,325)
- 2,936 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #6,325)
- Biggest jump: 187 spots in 1986 (#919 → #732)
- Biggest drop: 406 spots in 1999 (#930 → #1,336)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1978 at #705 (224 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1961–1998
- Highest: 1 in 6,821 girls born in 1996 were named Monika (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #705 in 1978, was only 1 in 6,839 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.2% of all girls named Monika (2,280) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 30 | #2,514 (1949) | #3,576 |
| 1950s | 374 | #1,184 (1959) | #2,189 |
| 1960s | 1,337 | #778 (1966) | #905 |
| 1970s | 1,866 | #705 (1978) | #775 |
| 1980s | 2,162 | #716 (1981) | #790 |
| 1990s | 2,280 | #783 (1990) | #896 |
| 2000s | 1,128 | #1,280 (2000) | #1,779 |
| 2010s | 481 | #2,562 (2010) | #3,441 |
| 2020s | 152 | #4,047 (2023) | #5,423 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Monika in 1965
Top girls' names in 1965
More about 1965
girls
1,765,164 girls got a published name in 1965; 1 in 14,009 of them was named Monika, which outranked 88.1% of the 7,535 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #887Kitty127
- #887Marni127
- #887Marylou127
- #894Monika126
- #894Deedee126
- #894Lesli126
- #894Malissa126
- #902Josefina125
- #902Marva125
- #904Amie124
Tied with 7 names at #894; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.