Monya
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/mənjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In India it is the 58th most common given name.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.9Kas Manju(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 37Kas Manju
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 37Kas Manju
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Monya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #650 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 named Manju, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Manju in IN India, MY Malaysia, KW Kuwait and 3 more and Mooney in US United States, SG Singapore, ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Monya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Manju | 23 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Mooney | 31 |
| US United States | — | 2,323as Manju | 1 in 143K | 34K | Mooney | 477 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #736 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Manju | 53 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Manju | 23 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Monya | 17 |
| KW Kuwait | #558 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Manju | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Mooney | 26 |
| BR Brazil | — | 36 | 1 in 5.9M | 250 | Manju | 9 |
| IN India | #58 | — | — | 23K | Manju | 217 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Monya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, bow (adornment)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Northern Sotho, to suck
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Elaine BunnUSnot in their usual nameAmerican government official
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 614 | #16,764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54 | #16,764 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 36 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #83,466 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 30 | #47,561 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 21 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Monya?
- A machine transcription gives /mənjə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Monya a male or female name?
- Monya is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Monya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Manju in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Monya?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 36 people named Monya in 2022, about 1 in 5.9 million residents.
- How common is Monya compared with other names?
- In India, Monya is the 58th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Monya” — the 58th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.