as a First Name
Of uncertain ultimate origin. This was the name of the mother of St Augustine, as transmitted to us by her famous son. She was a citizen of Carthage, so her name may well be of Phoenician origin, but in the early Middle Ages it was taken to be a derivative of Latin monere ‘to warn, counsel’, since it was as a result of her guidance that her son was converted to Christianity.
| 191st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 318,271
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Monica per capita
- 1973
- marked the height of its popularity
99.86%
0.14%
7%
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55+
54%
30-54
30-54
24%
13-29
13-29
14%
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