Mona
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Southern Togo language; Muslim female: 'hope'; Swazi male: 'jealous'; European female: 'noble lady'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɒnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Egypt it is the 27th most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 445(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 477
- EGEgypt≈1 in 484
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 497 (measured from records)
- 1 in 445 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Southern Togo language; Muslim female: 'hope'; Swazi male: 'jealous'; European female: 'noble lady'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mona 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Mona | 38 |
| EG Egypt | #27 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 484 | listed | Mona | 164 |
| US United States | #695 | 37,167 | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Mona | 497 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #96 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Mona | 138 |
| SE Sweden | #124 | 21,386 | 1 in 477 | 21K | Mona | 89 |
| NO Norway | #104 | 12,286 | 1 in 445 | 41K | Mona | 97 |
| DK Denmark | #193 | 7,880 | 1 in 745 | 7.9K | Mona | 118 |
| KW Kuwait | #42 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 673 | — | Mona | 81 |
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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Mona is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Short form; often from Monica or Madonna-related usage.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Muadhnait, a feminine diminutive of muadh ‘noble’. It is no longer restricted to people with Irish connections, and has sometimes been taken as connected with Greek monos ‘single’, ‘only’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from a personal name based on Arabic mund ‘wishes’, ‘desires’, plural of munya ‘wish’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a feminine form of Moni, a short form of the personal name Simone (Italian equivalent of Simon).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
dry fruit; a kind of fly; a snake-carrying basket
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
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)
- Mona Washbourneb. 1903GBEnglish actress of stage, film and television (1903-1988)
- Mona Hammondb. 1931JMBritish actress (1931–2022)
- Mona Marshallb. 1947USAmerican voice actress
- Mona Khalilb. 1949LBLebansese conservationist (1949–2026)
- Mona Simpsonb. 1957USAmerican novelist
- Mona Sahlinb. 1957SESwedish politician
- Mona Fastvoldb. 1981NONorwegian film director and actress
- Mona Singhb. 1981INIndian actress
- Mona Barthelb. 1990DEGerman tennis player
- Beata Anderssonb. 2005SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and actress
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)
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 116 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 41K | #82 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 37K | #1,111 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21K | #202 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 12K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7.9K | #89 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 75 | #1,111 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 61 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mona mean, and where does it come from?
- Southern Togo language; Muslim female: 'hope'; Swazi male: 'jealous'; European female: 'noble lady'. Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Mona?
- In the etymology graph, Monika, Muna and Mouna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mona a male or female name?
- Mona 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 do you pronounce Mona?
- A machine transcription gives /mɒnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 239 thousand people named Mona in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mona.
- Where is Mona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mona is densest in Norway — about 1 in 445 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,167 people named Mona in 2020, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Mona compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Mona is the 27th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monaThe 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, “Mona” — the 27th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.