Monia
Monia was last recorded in 2007, when 8 babies were given it; 366 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Monia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Monia mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Monia is “a diminutive of the female given name Monika”
Clipping of Monika + -ia.
/ˈmɔ.ɲa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Monia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,521, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1987, the peak
Monia peaked in 1987, when 13 girls were given it, #5,823 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #13,521 | 4.2 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,831 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,010 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,459 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,858 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,871 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,333 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,818 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,207 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,882 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 13 | #6,913 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,247 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,846 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,160 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,823 | 7.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,932 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,383 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,209 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,516 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,911 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,759 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,759 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,836 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,907 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,352 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,442 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,358 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,379 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,675 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,257 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,797 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,321 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,413 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,464 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,769 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,343 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,022 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,023 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,745 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,264 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,111 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,863 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,807 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,038 | 3.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,736 | 4.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,147 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,265 | 5.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,867 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,798 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,547 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,524 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Monia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Monia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Monia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Monia, and how old are they?
An estimated 305 Americans named Monia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 33 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 524 people named Monia (521 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 317 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,314 babies since 1880, Monia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 116 babies recorded by SSA was a Monia (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 Monia
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 Monia and names like it
- Compare Monia and MonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMonia peaked in 1987.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Monia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Monia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Monia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.