girls:
45.6k births since 1880
#620 (89th percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1933
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
45.7k births since 1880
#1143 (85th percentile)
The name Mona is the #1,143 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,665 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #620 (89.2% percentile) for all time with 45,634 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1933.
Mona has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1933 for boys).
The name Mona has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mona reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 69.1% percentile (ranked #238) with 587 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 619 births per million (ranked 67.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mona ranks #861 for girls (9.1% percentile) with 52 births per million, which is 8.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mona reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #521) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mona".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Mona is pronounced as MOH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-nuh, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M OW1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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