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Monike

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Monike has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1981, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Monike, 2000

1 in 756,000

Monike over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Monike: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Monike means

Monike is a given name.

The naming story behind Monike

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Monike in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 218.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ger. Lat. adviser”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Monike, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 girls were recorded with the name Monike between 1973 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,174 in 1981.

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 Monike?

Monike had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Monike 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 2000 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 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Monike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Monikes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Monike was born before 1980 — so the typical Monike is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
60
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Monike 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 1981 (11)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,174
1981

Spellings of Monike

Monike is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 67.9% against Monike's 0.02%.

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.

Monike around the world

Where Monike 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.

  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Monike by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,174
1981
Peak year
1981
11 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Monike

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

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Sibling names for Monike

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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