Monika
Monika is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 707th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1990257 births
- Best rank
- #707in 1978
- Since 1942
- 9,790people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,790 girls have been named Monika in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 257 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1990s alone account for 23%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Monika | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 30 | |
| 1950s | 374 | |
| 1960s | 1,336 | |
| 1970s | 1,865 | |
| 1980s | 2,162 | |
| 1990s | 2,280 | |
| 2000s | 1,128 | |
| 2010s | 481 | |
| 2020s | 134 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Monika was the 785th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Monika
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dionapeak 1994
- Daynapeak 1988
- Aleciapeak 1987
- Veroniquepeak 1972
- Alejandrinapeak 1992
- Maribelpeak 1980
- Larisapeak 1993
- Mirnapeak 1974
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.