Given name
Monalisa
“one who is born into the nobility”·“a jealous man”
Monalisa is a variant of Mona. Interpretations include “one who is born into the nobility” and “a jealous man” (African). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Monalisa is a variant of Mona. Interpretations include “one who is born into the nobility” and “a jealous man” (African). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Monalisa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,116
- 0 boys · 1,116 girls
- Most popular year
- 1965
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −53%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 37 in 1965. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,919 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Monalisa’s family of names
Monalisa has a related form in Mona.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Monalisa
- Monalisa ChindaNigerian actor, film producer and TV personalityborn 1974
- Monalisa ChangkijaIndian journalist and poetborn 1960
- Monalisa PerroneBrazilian journalistborn 1969
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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