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Monita

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Monita has been given to 505 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1961, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Monita, 1992

1 in 768,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Monita: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Monita means

Monita is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Monita is used in Indonesian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 505 girls were recorded with the name Monita between 1914 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1961; its best national rank was #2,919 in 1961.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Monita?

Monita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,251 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Monita 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 1992 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 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Monita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Monitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Monita was born before 1964 — so the typical Monita is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
364
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Monita 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 1961 (19)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,919
1961

Spellings of Monita

Monita is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 31.7% against Monita's 0.06%.

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 Monita is used

Across 1910–2025, Monita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,891,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —

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

Monita around the world

Where Monita 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
    1963–1963
    #644
    in 1963

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

Monita 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
#2,919
1961
Peak year
1961
19 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
505
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Monita

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

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Sibling names for Monita

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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