Monetta
Monetta was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 228 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Monetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Monetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,926, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1962, the peak
Monetta peaked in 1962, when 13 girls were given it, #3,720 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #9,926 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,317 | 3.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,459 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,150 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,316 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,720 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,342 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,022 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,113 | 5.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,592 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 8 | #4,624 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,552 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,972 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,861 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,501 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,888 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,055 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,483 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,465 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,678 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,676 | 6.4 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,697 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,017 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,669 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,264 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,372 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,385 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,866 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,248 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,546 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,523 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,753 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,980 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,931 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Monetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Monetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Monetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Monetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Monetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 62 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 217 people named Monetta (216 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,697 babies since 1880, Monetta is the fourth most given (6.2% 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 Monetta
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 Monetta and names like it
- Compare Monetta and MontaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMonetta peaked in 1962.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Monetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Monetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.