Monae
Monae was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,048 among girls’ names; 2,291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,260 Americans named Monae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Monae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Monae?
#6,048 among girls’ names, 2025
Monae fell from #3,167 in 2015 to #6,048 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 12.4 per million.
113 babies in 1998, the peak
Monae peaked in 1998, when 113 girls were given it, #1,503 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,048 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,733 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,810 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,125 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,196 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,134 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,368 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,422 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,606 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,129 | 29.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,167 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,080 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,156 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,892 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,537 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,189 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,847 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,247 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,581 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,295 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,391 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,383 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,116 | 45.4 |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,341 | 38.4 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,503 | 34.4 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,958 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,748 | 51.9 |
| 1998 | 113 | #1,503 | 64.0 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,701 | 52.9 |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,481 | 63.3 |
| 1995 | 56 | #2,356 | 31.8 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,488 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,805 | 44.8 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,145 | 34.2 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,171 | 32.5 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,274 | 29.5 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,634 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,773 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,889 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,974 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,918 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,651 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,221 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,775 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,710 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,189 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,649 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,402 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,227 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,458 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,681 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,703 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,296 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,103 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,170 | 4.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,752 | 3.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,228 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Monae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Monae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Monae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Monae, and how old are they?
2,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,291 Americans ever recorded as Monae. The median Monae alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,757 people named Monae (1,752 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,073 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 74 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 649 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 514 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Monae born?
The states with the most babies named Monae are California, New York and Maryland, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 243 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 131 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 85 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Michigan | 81 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Monae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,463 babies since 1880, Monae is the second most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 116 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Monae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Monae and names like it
- Compare Monae and MonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMonae peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Monae since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Monae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Monae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.