Mona
About Mona
Mona had more than a moment in the sun, peaking in 1950 at Number 230 but falling off the Top 1000 completely in the late 1980s. Its similarity to the word "moaner" undercuts the appeal of its simplicity. In one recent year, fewer than 100 baby girls received the name, and we don't see it reviving any time soon.
Pronounced MO-nuh.
As of October 2026, Mona ranked #2806 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #230 in 1950, Nameberry popularity #926.
Editor's take: The name Mona is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "noble good".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,029 | 97 | 54.3 |
| 2015 | #1,902 | 107 | 59.9 |
| 2016 | #1,752 | 119 | 67.2 |
| 2017 | #1,797 | 116 | 67.2 |
| 2018 | #1,861 | 109 | 64.1 |
| 2019 | #1,897 | 106 | 63.2 |
| 2020 | #1,940 | 99 | 61.2 |
| 2021 | #2,020 | 96 | 58.5 |
| 2022 | #2,166 | 88 | 53.7 |
| 2023 | #2,116 | 91 | 56.7 |
| 2024 | #2,224 | 85 | 52.5 |
| 2025 | #2,806 | 61 | 38 |
World rankings
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Mona on lists
Famous Monas
- Mona von Bismarck (born Mona Travis Strader)
American socialite and fashion icon
- Mona Johannesson
Swedish model
- Mona Elizabeth Simpson
American novelist; sister of Apple founder Steve Jobs
- Mona Grudt
Norwegian beauty queen; Miss Universe 1990
- Mona Charen
American columnist and commentator
- Mona Barthel
German tennis player
- Mona Marshall
American voice actress
- Monalisa "Mona" Johnson
participant in '60 days in'
Mona in pop culture
- Mona Lisa
painting by Leonardo Da Vinci
- Mona Melendy
the young actress in Elizabeth Enright's Melendy Children series
- Mona Parker
main character in the "Mona the Vampire" series
- Mona Dahl
character in "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
- Mona Vanderwaal
character in the Pretty Little Liars series
- Mona Robinson
character on TV's "Who's the Boss?"
- Mona
Ross's short,time girlfriend on TV's "Friends"
- Mona Kane Tyler
mother of Erica Kane on American soap "All My Children"
- Mona Milton
"maternal nymphomaniac" (and mistress of Ulick Invern) in "Painted Veils" (1920), by James Huneker
- Mona Tibbs
character on TV's "Salute Your Shorts"
- Mona J. Simpson
mother of Homer on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Lady Mona Treverton
character in "Green City in the Sun," by Barbara Wood
- Mona Bergeron
main character in the 1985 French film "Vagabond (Sans Toit ni Loi)"
- Mona Mayfair
character in several novels by Anne Rice
- "Mona McCluskey
" TV series and its main character
- Mona Aamons Monzano
character in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle"
- Mona Ramsey
character in the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin
- Mona Sax
character in the Max Payne series
- Mona Stevens
character in "Landfall: A Channel Story" by Nevil Shute and film
- Mona
character in the WarioWare series of video games
- Mona
main character in "Mona Lisa Overdrive" by William Gibson
- "Mona
" opera by Horatio Parker
- "The Ballad of Mona Lisa
" song by Panic! at the Disco
- The Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting
- "Mona Lisa Smile
" movie starring Julia Roberts
- Mona Lisa Saperstein
character in "Parks and Recreation"