Mona
Mona is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 85 births. Its best rank was 230th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 850.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19571,232 births
- Best rank
- #230in 1950
- Since 1880
- 45,722people given the name
The story in the numbers
45,722 girls have been named Mona in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 1,232 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 24%. It has spent 106 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mona | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 204 | |
| 1890s | 522 | |
| 1900s | 691 | |
| 1910s | 2,077 | |
| 1920s | 3,446 | |
| 1930s | 6,011 | |
| 1940s | 4,240 | |
| 1950s | 11,180 | |
| 1960s | 8,795 | |
| 1970s | 3,389 | |
| 1980s | 1,515 | |
| 1990s | 1,228 | |
| 2000s | 939 | |
| 2010s | 1,026 | |
| 2020s | 459 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Mona was the 242nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Mona
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Anitapeak 1957
- Theresapeak 1961
- Lornapeak 1957
- Nitapeak 1956
- Annpeak 1957
- Twilapeak 1960
- Ramonapeak 1928
- Dorettapeak 1953
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.