Moniqua — girls' name
409 babies named Moniqua in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Moniqua was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Moniqua in 1992 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Moniqua
The Social Security Administration has registered 409 babies named Moniqua between 1970 and 2002, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Moniqua currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Moniqua performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 192 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Moniqua shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Moniqua in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Moniqua 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 409 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.
Moniqua at a glance
Last recorded 2002Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Moniqua popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–1970
- Peak year (1992)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2002.
409 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1992 with 43 births in a single year.
Moniqua by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 192 births that decade — 47% of Moniqua's all-time total
Moniqua decade highlights
- Peak decade 192 births
- Runner-up 127 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Moniqua's strongest decade
192 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Moniqua by state
Where Moniqua concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 6 | 1.5% |
| #2 | California | | 5 | 1.2% |
6 of 409 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 1.5% of nationwide
- California 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 1.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.