Monai
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Monai has been given to 184 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Monai, 2018
1 in 703,000
Monai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Monai?
Monai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Monai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Monai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Monais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Monai was born before 1996 — so the typical Monai is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 52.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 184
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (96).
Is Monai 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (18)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.2% average annual change
Spellings of Monai
Monai is not the most common spelling — Toni is, with 27.4% against Monai's 0.05%.
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.
Monai around the world
Where Monai 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 & Wales1998–2002#3,409in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Monai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Monai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Monai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.