Monalisa
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/mənəɫisə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monalisa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 16K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 445as Mona
- SESweden1 in 477as Mona
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 Monalisa 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 497 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 named Mona, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mona in US United States, EG Egypt, NO Norway and 5 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Monalisa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #27 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 484 | listed | Mona | 164 |
| US United States | #695 | 37,167as Mona | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Mona | 497 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #96 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Mona | 138 |
| SE Sweden | #124 | 21,386as Mona | 1 in 477 | 21K | Mona | 89 |
| DE Germany | #585 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 1 | Mona | 204 |
| BR Brazil | — | 13,351 | 1 in 16K | 13K | Monalisa | 115 |
| NO Norway | #104 | 12,286as Mona | 1 in 445 | 41K | Mona | 97 |
| DK Denmark | #193 | 7,880as Mona | 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); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Monalisa Changkijab. 1960INIndian journalist and poet
- Monalisa Jenab. 1963INIndian Writer, translator from Odisha
- Monalisa Mishrab. 1969INOdia writer
- Monalisa Perroneb. 1969BRBrazilian journalist
- Monalisa Basarabb. 1972RORomanian actress
- Monalisa Chindab. 1974NGNigerian actor, film producer and TV personality
- Monalisa Codlingb. 1977NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Monalisa Bagalb. 1996INIndian actress
- Monalisa Arayab. 2003EREritrean cyclist
- Monalisa Baruah MehtaINIndian table tennis player
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)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,389 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12K | #1,886 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 12K | #783 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 8.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 4.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 2.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,784 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Monalisa?
- A machine transcription gives /mənəɫisə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Monalisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Mona in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Monalisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Monalisa is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- Is Monalisa a male or female name?
- Monalisa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How common is the name Monalisa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 13,351 people named Monalisa in 2022, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Monalisa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Monalisa is the 27th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Monalisa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monalisaThe 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, “Monalisa” — the 27th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.