Monika Forename
278th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 2,156,628 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Liechtenstein
Monika Forename User-submission:
The name Monika comes from the French name Monique, which means 'unique', 'one' and 'only'.
Monika Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 821,724 | 1:118 | 14 |
| Poland | 100% | 537,613 | 1:71 | 15 |
| India | 100% | 297,120 | 1:4,089 | 443 |
| Austria | 100% | 75,378 | 1:113 | 17 |
| Czechia | 100% | 66,704 | 1:160 | 44 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 53,830 | 1:153 | 15 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 48,572 | 1:3,283 | 474 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 31,657 | 1:8,149 | 1,075 |
| United States | 100% | 27,937 | 1:12,977 | 1,274 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 27,049 | 1:196 | 43 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 17,614 | 1:2,997 | 556 |
| Sweden | 100% | 12,487 | 1:789 | 141 |
| England | 100% | 12,184 | 1:4,564 | 515 |
| Namibia | - | 9,527 | 1:252 | 41 |
| Uganda | 100% | 7,662 | 1:5,345 | 636 |
| Romania | 100% | 6,804 | 1:2,947 | 319 |
| Canada | 100% | 6,484 | 1:5,110 | 789 |
| Lithuania | 99% | 5,487 | 1:538 | 147 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 4,600 | 1:535 | 147 |
| Italy | 100% | 4,565 | 1:13,376 | 728 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 4,468 | 1:1,565 | 299 |
| Croatia | 100% | 4,281 | 1:985 | 210 |
| Russia | 99% | 4,054 | 1:35,578 | 835 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 4,005 | 1:4,220 | 680 |
| Norway | 100% | 3,653 | 1:1,405 | 286 |
| Egypt | 100% | 2,885 | 1:31,855 | 2,100 |
| Estonia | 100% | 2,568 | 1:512 | 112 |
| Latvia | 100% | 2,562 | 1:787 | 180 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2,554 | 1:3,834 | 229 |
| Belgium | 100% | 2,457 | 1:4,676 | 734 |
| DR Congo | 97% | 2,410 | 1:30,634 | 2,255 |
| Thailand | 100% | 2,380 | 1:29,439 | 3,685 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 2,361 | 1:75,207 | 4,727 |
| Spain | 100% | 2,146 | 1:21,682 | 1,255 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1,931 | 1:10,771 | 1,590 |
| Denmark | - | 1,828 | 1:3,091 | 450 |
| France | 100% | 1,825 | 1:36,422 | 1,282 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 1,776 | 1:109,436 | 4,679 |
| South Africa | 99% | 1,700 | 1:32,078 | 3,829 |
| Australia | - | 1,662 | 1:8,218 | 854 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 1,650 | 1:4,941 | 528 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,624 | 1:131,919 | 6,690 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1,490 | 1:3,116 | 383 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1,439 | 1:7,249 | 952 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1,410 | 1:5,940 | 838 |
| Greece | 100% | 1,292 | 1:8,463 | 539 |
| Georgia | 96% | 1,146 | 1:3,262 | 444 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1,145 | 1:6,241 | 668 |
| Albania | 100% | 1,085 | 1:2,808 | 589 |
| Finland | 100% | 989 | 1:5,544 | 608 |
| Armenia | 100% | 752 | 1:3,881 | 533 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 668 | 1:57 | 2 |
| Fiji | - | 662 | 1:1,348 | 344 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 641 | 1:27,686 | 1,479 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 636 | 1:24,251 | 2,561 |
| Scotland | 100% | 603 | 1:8,873 | 658 |
| Mexico | 100% | 566 | 1:219,336 | 3,760 |
| Congo | 100% | 527 | 1:9,505 | 1,237 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 525 | 1:58,691 | 6,867 |
| Portugal | - | 517 | 1:20,137 | 960 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 485 | 1:63,477 | 2,171 |
| Ghana | - | 449 | 1:60,103 | 3,023 |
| Cameroon | 85% | 432 | 1:50,024 | 3,269 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 385 | 1:1,465 | 265 |
| New Zealand | - | 371 | 1:12,227 | 1,192 |
| Malaysia | 94% | 330 | 1:92,273 | 6,617 |
| Abkhazia | 99% | 303 | 1:803 | 190 |
| Wales | 100% | 303 | 1:10,212 | 819 |
| Morocco | - | 300 | 1:114,495 | 3,629 |
| Malawi | 100% | 296 | 1:57,812 | 3,676 |
| Oman | - | 289 | 1:14,217 | 1,430 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 286 | 1:3,046 | 415 |
| Zambia | - | 285 | 1:55,631 | 3,355 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 283 | 1:7,388 | 1,119 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 246 | 1:65,481 | 1,869 |
| Belarus | 98% | 218 | 1:43,497 | 583 |
| Bahrain | - | 192 | 1:7,024 | 1,127 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 182 | 1:165,944 | 6,454 |
| Philippines | 99% | 181 | 1:585,688 | 18,670 |
| Iceland | 93% | 178 | 1:2,056 | 353 |
| Colombia | 93% | 152 | 1:314,335 | 5,970 |
| Kosovo | - | 148 | 1:12,577 | 1,729 |
| Ecuador | - | 145 | 1:122,255 | 2,697 |
| Peru | 100% | 136 | 1:233,761 | 5,705 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 126 | 1:27,972 | 1,881 |
| China | - | 126 | 1:10,841,713 | 59,698 |
| Chile | 99% | 109 | 1:161,534 | 3,286 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 108 | 1:67,007 | 2,114 |
| Cambodia | 77% | 96 | 1:169,514 | 5,882 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 95 | 1:50,189 | 2,222 |
| Malta | - | 91 | 1:4,718 | 654 |
| Turkey | 100% | 86 | 1:904,671 | 9,456 |
| Singapore | 100% | 81 | 1:77,618 | 7,108 |
| Suriname | 100% | 66 | 1:8,376 | 1,618 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 64 | 1:111,750 | 8,641 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Nepal | - | 50 | 1:569,747 | 15,783 |
| Japan | 100% | 49 | 1:2,611,960 | 21,755 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 46 | 1:40,068 | 1,150 |
| Iran | 100% | 45 | 1:1,744,375 | 11,468 |
| Gibraltar | - | 41 | 1:833 | 177 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 37 | 1:15,702 | 1,358 |
| Ethiopia | - | 36 | 1:2,710,004 | 9,023 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 35 | 1:7,719 | 883 |
| Panama | 100% | 33 | 1:118,381 | 5,491 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 33 | 1:165,845 | 1,456 |
| Jersey | 100% | 31 | 1:3,225 | 462 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 31 | 1:110,569 | 2,725 |
| Argentina | 100% | 29 | 1:1,474,939 | 6,414 |
| Qatar | 100% | 28 | 1:84,629 | 9,711 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 27 | 1:357,146 | 8,570 |
| Hong Kong | - | 26 | 1:298,182 | 3,645 |
| Kenya | 100% | 25 | 1:1,852,284 | 20,199 |
| Moldova | - | 25 | 1:142,446 | 1,501 |
| Liberia | 100% | 24 | 1:183,836 | 6,655 |
| Botswana | 67% | 21 | 1:104,021 | 8,595 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 20 | 1:2,456 | 492 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 18 | 1:163,045 | 8,219 |
| Angola | - | 16 | 1:1,685,413 | 2,877 |
| South Korea | - | 16 | 1:346,526 | 10,365 |
| Sudan | 100% | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 15 | 1:54,995 | 1,683 |
| Monaco | 100% | 15 | 1:2,564 | 491 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 15 | 1:7,316 | 1,065 |
| Bermuda | - | 13 | 1:4,987 | 816 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 13 | 1:48,814 | 2,166 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 13 | 1:1,828,437 | 49,694 |
| Benin | 100% | 12 | 1:881,320 | 23,430 |
| El Salvador | - | 12 | 1:528,482 | 4,653 |
| Jamaica | - | 12 | 1:240,269 | 7,382 |
| Cuba | - | 11 | 1:1,046,050 | 3,771 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 11 | 1:543,025 | 16,192 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 10 | 1:9,262,311 | 4,040 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 9 | 1:394,478 | 3,471 |
| Tonga | - | 9 | 1:11,937 | 236 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 8 | 1:6,694 | 552 |
| Algeria | - | 7 | 1:5,453,817 | 10,071 |
| Greenland | - | 7 | 1:8,053 | 908 |
| Israel | - | 7 | 1:1,200,417 | 15,461 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 7 | 1:859,762 | 11,907 |
| Tunisia | - | 7 | 1:96,700 | 5,802 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 6 | 1:3,063,245 | 50,518 |
| Honduras | - | 6 | 1:1,469,578 | 13,832 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Ukraine | - | 6 | 1:7,583,318 | 11,559 |
| Bahamas | - | 5 | 1:79,874 | 1,458 |
| Haiti | - | 5 | 1:2,145,391 | 20,367 |
| Bolivia | - | 4 | 1:2,650,351 | 4,903 |
| French Polynesia | - | 4 | 1:69,476 | 2,352 |
| Kiribati | - | 4 | 1:28,348 | 503 |
| Mali | 100% | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| Barbados | - | 3 | 1:96,596 | 2,324 |
| Guyana | - | 3 | 1:254,421 | 14,062 |
| Senegal | 100% | 3 | 1:4,860,452 | 20,187 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 2 | 1:30,650 | 1,815 |
| Jordan | - | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,795 | 134 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 1 | 1:1,361,419 | 34,512 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Mónika (104,310), Mônika (30), Mònika (11), Moníka (1) & Moniká (1) are calculated separately.
Monika (23,490) may also be a surname.
Monika Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The name Monika comes from the French name Monique, which means 'unique', 'one' and 'only'.
- mrdobrinovMonika Forename Popularity
Monika Demographics
Monika Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 163 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Monika Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Monika in the Russian language | ||
| Моника | monika | - |
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