Monae
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 111 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,291since 1961
Monae over time
Rank among girls' names. Monae has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2016 | #3,100 | 53 |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 |
| 2012 | #3,854 | 40 |
| 2011 | #3,496 | 45 |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 |
| 2007 | #3,531 | 46 |
| 2006 | #3,264 | 50 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 |
| 2004 | #2,370 | 72 |
| 2003 | #2,106 | 83 |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 |
| 2001 | #2,487 | 62 |
| 2000 | #1,952 | 86 |
| 1999 | #1,738 | 92 |
| 1998 | #1,501 | 113 |
| 1997 | #1,696 | 92 |
| 1996 | #1,478 | 111 |
| 1995 | #2,345 | 56 |
| 1994 | #2,465 | 51 |
| 1993 | #1,801 | 81 |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 63 |
| 1991 | #2,163 | 61 |
| 1990 | #2,258 | 56 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 |
| 1986 | #3,890 | 21 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Monae! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Monae is popular in 1961
No state had 5 or more girls named Monae in 1961, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Monae
- 1,248 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #5,917)
- 1,839 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #5,917)
- 2,788 spots since 2015 (#3,129 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1996 at #1,478 (111 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,637 girls born in 1998 were named Monae (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,478 in 1996, was only 1 in 15,793 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.9% of all girls named Monae (776) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,407 |
| 1970s | 64 | #5,215 (1976) | #7,275 |
| 1980s | 195 | #2,744 (1988) | #4,777 |
| 1990s | 776 | #1,478 (1996) | #1,957 |
| 2000s | 591 | #1,952 (2000) | #2,939 |
| 2010s | 454 | #3,100 (2016) | #3,511 |
| 2020s | 200 | #3,157 (2021) | #4,435 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Monae in 1961
Top girls' names in 1961
More about 1961
girls
2,018,495 girls got a published name in 1961; 1 in 403,699 of them was named Monae, which outranked 12.8% of the 7,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 960 names at #6,567; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.