Monesha
Monesha was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 420 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Monesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Monesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,528, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1996, the peak
Monesha peaked in 1996, when 61 girls were given it, #2,218 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #17,528 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,011 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,560 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,699 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,357 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,707 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,417 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,218 | 34.8 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,158 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,636 | 12.3 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 18 | #5,362 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,744 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,471 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,156 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,983 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,536 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,784 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,218 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,191 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,931 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,791 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,776 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,168 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,531 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,650 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,315 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,314 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,996 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Monesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Monesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Monesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Monesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 410 Americans named Monesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 29 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 355 people named Monesha (353 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,871 babies since 1880, Monesha is the second most given (22% of them).
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 Monesha
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 Monesha and names like it
- Compare Monesha and MonishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMonesha peaked in 1996.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Monesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Monesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Monesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.