Monica

girls:

250.5k births since 1880

#162 (97th percentile)

boys:

983 births since 1948

#3609 (21st percentile)

overall:

251.5k births since 1880

#314 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Monica".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
250,497
Peak Births
6,584
Peak Year
1977
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
95.0%
Current Percentile
38.1%
Peak Rank
#39
Current Rank
#587
Female statistics
Total Births
983
Peak Births
43
Peak Year
1973
First Recorded
1948
Peak Percentile
5.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#600
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Monica

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Monica. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 69.4% confident that Monica is pronounced as MAH-nih-kuh. The next most likely pronunciation is mah-NIH-kuh, at 13.9% confidence.

MAH-nih-kuh (3 syllables)
Verified
69.4% confidence
M AA1 N IH0 K AH0
mah-NIH-kuh (3 syllables)
13.9% confidence
M AA0 N IH1 K AH0
muh-NIH-kuh (3 syllables)
8.3% confidence
M AH0 N IH1 K AH0
MAH-nee-kuh (3 syllables)
8.3% confidence
M AA1 N IY0 K AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Monica. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Monica, please vote using the thumbs up button.

moh-NIH-kuh (3 syllables)
3 names 9.8k births
M OW0 N IH1 K AH0
moh-NEE-kuh (3 syllables)
7 names 372 births
M OW0 N IY1 K AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 AA1 N IH0 K 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.