Monisha
Monisha was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 1,254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Monisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 31 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Monisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Monisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,354, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
86 babies in 1983, the peak
Monisha peaked in 1983, when 86 girls were given it, #1,384 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,354 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,392 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,689 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,159 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,334 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,285 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,408 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,599 | 5.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,676 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,384 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #11,023 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,307 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,045 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,866 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,578 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,708 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,592 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,243 | 34.2 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,504 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,567 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,554 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,500 | 27.7 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,254 | 30.9 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,050 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,109 | 32.0 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,200 | 29.2 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,471 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,219 | 27.4 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,477 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,897 | 33.3 |
| 1983 | 86 | #1,384 | 51.5 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,143 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,901 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,842 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,834 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,840 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,815 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,466 | 22.5 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,593 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,629 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,583 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,493 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,105 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,966 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,808 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,345 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Monisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Monisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Monisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Monisha, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,254 Americans ever recorded as Monisha. The median Monisha alive today is 37 years old; half are between 31 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,598 people named Monisha (1,597 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 234 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 205 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Monisha born?
The states with the most babies named Monisha are California, Texas and New York, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 126 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Monisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,871 babies since 1880, Monisha is the most given (67% 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 Monisha
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 Monisha and names like it
- Compare Monisha and MoneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMonisha peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Monisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Monisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Monisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.