Moniqua
Moniqua was last recorded in 2002, when 7 babies were given it; 409 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moniqua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Moniqua?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,176, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1992, the peak
Moniqua peaked in 1992, when 43 girls were given it, #2,808 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #13,176 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,743 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,590 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,151 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,996 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,162 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,892 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,614 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,808 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,155 | 13.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 16 | #5,737 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,984 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,781 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,232 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,027 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,046 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,127 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,539 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,860 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,175 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,141 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,632 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,837 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,106 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,848 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,276 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,407 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,753 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,031 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,814 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Moniqua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moniqua has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moniqua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moniqua, and how old are they?
An estimated 396 Americans named Moniqua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 33 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 329 people named Moniqua (329 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 79,629 babies since 1880, Moniqua is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Moniqua (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 Moniqua
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 Moniqua and names like it
- Compare Moniqua and MoniqueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMoniqua peaked in 1992.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moniqua since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Moniqua.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Moniqua alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.