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Monet

#3,751 in 2025Girls' name

French surname transferred into given-name use

Monet has been given to 4,552 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #3,751 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 175 recorded.

Babies named Monet, 2025

1 in 82,900

Monet over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Monet: meaning, origin, and history

French surname transferred into given-name use

French surname transfer

What Monet means

Monet is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Monet is used in Various.

The naming story behind Monet

Monet is a given name adopted from French surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,546 girls were recorded with the name Monet between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 175 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,075 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,514 in 2020 to #3,751 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,825 in 2015 to #3,751 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Monet between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,601 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Monet?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,751
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Monet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Monet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Monets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Monet was born before 1997 — so the typical Monet is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,546
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (1,483).

Is Monet 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
−312
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+763
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+74
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.9%
Peak was 1997 (175)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,075
1997

Spellings of Monet

Monet is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 87.5% against Monet's 0.71%.

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 Monet is used

Across 1910–2025, Monet was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 47,592 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 12,500
  2. 2Maryland1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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. Monet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Monet around the world

Where Monet 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1992–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Monet

People whose public names include Monet, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Monet by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,751
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 763
Best rank ever
#1,075
1997
Peak year
1997
175 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,546
Count in 2025
40

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,601
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Monet

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Monet

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Monet, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

FranchescaHalleyKeyanaYajairaJesseniaGabrielKaleeReannaColbyTierneyKeonaAnisha

Sibling names for Monet

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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