Monje
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from monje ‘monk’ (a loanword from Old Occitan, from Latin monachus)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/monxe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monje is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 6.2K
- CLChile≈1 in 9.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
7,360 people
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- OldOccitan(measured from records)
- Latinmonachus(measured from records)
from monje ‘monk’ (a loanword from Old Occitan, from Latin monachus). Compare Monge.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Monje counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #669 | 7,360 | 1 in 6.2K | 7.4K | Monje | 60 |
| ES Spain | #859 | 4,696 | 1 in 11K | 4.7K | Monje | 135 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Monje | 26 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Monje | 62 |
| BO Bolivia | #269 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Monje | 45 |
| CL Chile | #640 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | 1 | Monje | 71 |
| HN Honduras | #445 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Monje | 13 |
7,360 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Monje is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, monk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sid, grave
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pastora Imperiob. 1880ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress (1887-1979)
- Tomás Monjeb. 1884BOpresident (1884-1954)
- Mario Monjeb. 1929BOBolivian politician (1929-2019)
- Camarón de la Islab. 1950ESnot in their usual nameSpanish flamenco singer (1950–1992)
- Gustavo Monjeb. 1972ARArgentinian actor
- Michelle Monjeb. 1978USAmerican neurologist and researcher
- Vicente Monjeb. 1981ARArgentinian footballer
- Leonardo Monjeb. 1981CLChilean footballer
- Sofía Nietob. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress and mathematician
- Álvaro Monjeb. 1985ESSpanish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 7.4K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.7K | #1,123 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.7K | #1,123 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Monje come from?
- from monje ‘monk’ (a loanword from Old Occitan, from Latin monachus). Compare Monge. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Monje?
- In the etymology graph, Monasterio and Monja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Monje?
- A machine transcription gives /monxe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Monje mean?
- Recorded meaning: from monje ‘monk’ (a loanword from Old Occitan, from Latin monachus).
- In which country does Monje have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named Monje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monje.
- How common is the name Monje?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 7,360 people named Monje, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Monje compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Monje is the 669th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monjeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Monje” — the 669th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.