Monika

Where Monika comes from

A less common spelling of Monica, used since the twentieth century.
— Wiktionary's entry for Monika
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #4,622 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #705
    224 babies named Monika — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    Monika Kuszyńska born
    Polish singer
  4. 1992
    Monika Linkytė born
    Lithuanian singer and songwriter
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,858.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Monika Linkytė · Lithuanian singer and songwriter, born 1992
  • Monika Kuszyńska · Polish singer, born 1980
  • Monika Liu · Lithuanian singer-songwriter, born 1988
  • Monika Zehrt · East German sprinter, born 1952
  • Monika Soćko · Polish chess player, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.