Monae
#6,048 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Monae has been given to 2,291 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #6,048 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 113 recorded.
Babies named Monae, 2025
1 in 166,000
Monae over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Monae?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 80,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,048
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Monae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Monae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Monaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Monae was born before 2001 — so the typical Monae is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,291
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (776).
Is Monae rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,315
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,914
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,881
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.38×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.7%
- Peak was 1998 (113)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Monae
Monae is not the most common spelling — Mae is, with 30.6% against Monae's 0.61%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Monae is used
Across 1910–2025, Monae was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 114,813 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 25,000
- 2Maryland1 in 25,000
- 3California1 in 50,000
- 4Florida1 in 100,000
- 5Illinois1 in 100,000
- 6Michigan1 in 100,000
- 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 8New York1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Monae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Monae around the world
Where Monae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2025#2,138in 2025
- South Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Monae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Monae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Monae
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Monae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Monae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.