Mónika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Monica
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈmoːnikɒ/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Mónika is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Poland it is the 27th most common given name.
- 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 Mónika 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #141 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Monika in IN India, DE Germany, PL Poland and 3 more, Monica in US United States, MX Mexico 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, equivalent to English Monica
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mónika 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #345 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 115 | Monika | 243 |
| DE Germany | #42 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 188 | — | Monika | 271 |
| PL Poland | #27 | 376,774 | 1 in 102 | 377K | Monika | 239 |
| MX Mexico | #106 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 442 | 1.8K | Monica | 260 |
| US United States | #174 | 264,966as Monica | 1 in 1.3K | 265K | Monica | 593 |
| CZ Czechia | #41 | 127,714 | 1 in 84 | 128K | Monika | 162 |
| HU Hungary | #61 | 61,103 | 1 in 160 | 61K | Monika | 157 |
| AT Austria | #38 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 178 | 2.7K | Monika | 154 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 19K | Monique | 6 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Monica Porterb. 1952HUHungarian born British journalist
- Mónika Császárb. 1954HUartistic gymnast
- Mónika Lamperthb. 1957HUHungarian jurist, politician (1957–)
- Mónika Mécsb. 1967HUHungarian film producer
- Mónika Sánchezb. 1970MXMexican actress
- Mónika Juhász Miczurab. 1972HUHungarian singer
- Monica Selesb. 1973USYugoslav and American tennis player
- Mónika Balsaib. 1977HUHungarian actress
- Mónika Lakatosb. 1978HUHungarian Romani singer
- Mónika Kovacsiczb. 1983HUHungarian handball 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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2015 | 63K | #18 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2013 | 63K | #19 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2016 | 63K | #18 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2012 | 63K | #19 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2017 | 62K | #18 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2011 | 62K | #19 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2018 | 62K | #18 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2019 | 62K | #17 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2023 | 62K | #16 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2024 | 61K | #15 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 61K | #15 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1980 | 2.6K | #4 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Mónika a male or female name?
- Mónika is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025).
- How do you pronounce Mónika?
- In Hungarian /ˈmoːnikɒ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Mónika mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Monica Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Mónika?
- In the etymology graph, Monica and Monique are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mónika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 474 thousand people named Mónika in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monika.
- Where is Mónika most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mónika is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 84 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mónika?
- In Poland, the national register counted 376,774 people named Mónika in 2026, about 1 in 102 residents.
- How common is Mónika compared with other names?
- In India, Mónika is the 345th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mónika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B3nikaThe 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, “Mónika” — the 345th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.