Monika

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name, very popular in Germany in the 1940's and the 1950's

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈmoːnika/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Monika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 84(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 102
  • HUHungary1 in 160

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Monika itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

376,774 people, 2026

#141 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
593 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MonicaLatin(measured from records)
МоникаCyrillic(measured from records)
מוניקהHebrew(measured from records)
ՄոնիկաArmenian(measured from records)
모니카Hangul(measured from records)
โมนิกาThai(measured from records)
მონიკაGeorgian(measured from records)
ΜονικαGreek(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Monica in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and Monique in LT Lithuania.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name, very popular in Germany in the 1940's and the 1950's

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Monika 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.

Where Monika is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#27376,7741 in 102377KMonika239
DE Germany#42≈270,000 est.≈1 in 301—Monika271
US United States#174264,966as Monica1 in 1.3K265KMonica593
AR Argentina#72≈210,000 est.≈1 in 214152Monica149
BR Brazil#151190,977as Monica1 in 1.1K204KMonica218
CZ Czechia#41127,7141 in 84128KMonika162
HU Hungary#6161,1031 in 16061KMonika157
LT Lithuania—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 22119KMonique6

376,774 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Registrų centras — top-50 given names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Monika is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Mònika, Mónika

  • Lithuanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, United States, United Kingdom, Latvia

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Moņika, Mónika

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

    Also written 'Monika, Mónika, Monika', Möñïkå

  • Finnish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Estonia, India, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mónika, Mönikä, Mònika, Mönïkä, Monîkā

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Mônika, Mónika, Mònika, Monikā

  • Turkish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Russia, India

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Моника, Mónika

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Mónika

70 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Monika is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ) Monica: weibl. Vom. wohl punischer Herkunft, dessen Bedeutung un­

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Dutch, uncommon spelling of Monica

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1940196019802000Monika Lundi, b. 1942Monika Grütters, b. 1962Monika Willi, b. 1968Monica Potter, b. 1971Monica Seles, b. 1973Monika Soćko, b. 1978Monika Kuszyńska, b. 1980Monica Sweetheart, b. 1981Monika Liu, b. 1988Monika Linkytė, b. 1992

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)

InformalHallo Monika,Hi Monika, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 96 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Monika
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—377K#13
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026377K#13
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—128K#38
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—64K#44
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202022K#1,527
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—19K#38
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022868—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—865#9,112
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—686#11,785
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)202592—
HU Hungarymagyarnevek — given names by decade197060#97
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)201038—

Reference works 5

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

What does the name Monika mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name, very popular in Germany in the 1940's and the 1950's Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Monika?
A machine transcription gives /ˈmoːnika/ (IPA) for German.
What are other forms of the name Monika?
In the etymology graph, Monica, Monique and Mónica are forms of the same name in other languages; Mona is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Monika have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 377 thousand people named Monika, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monika.
Where is Monika most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Monika is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 84 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
Is Monika a male or female name?
Monika is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Monika?
In Poland, the national register counted 376,774 people named Monika in 2026, about 1 in 102 residents.
How common is Monika compared with other names?
In Poland, Monika is the 27th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.

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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, “Monika” — the 27th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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