Monifa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Monifa

The Social Security Administration has registered 416 babies named Monifa between 1969 and 1998, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Monifa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 34 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Monifa performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 230 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Monifa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 172 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Monifa in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Monifa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 416 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.