Moneka
Moneka was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 266 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moneka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Moneka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,761, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1980, the peak
Moneka peaked in 1980, when 18 girls were given it, #4,250 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #14,761 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,679 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,927 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,336 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,352 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,230 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,744 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,934 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,845 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,840 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 11 | #6,962 | 6.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,942 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,045 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,202 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,073 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,426 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,783 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,250 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,303 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,189 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,758 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,042 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,682 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,813 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,284 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,331 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,870 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Moneka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moneka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moneka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moneka, and how old are they?
An estimated 255 Americans named Moneka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 37 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 244 people named Moneka (244 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 262,970 babies since 1880, Moneka is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 389 babies recorded by SSA was a Moneka (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Moneka
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 Moneka and names like it
- Compare Moneka and MonicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMoneka peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Moneka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Moneka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.