Given name & surname
Mouna
“one who is desired”
Mouna is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mouna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 58
- 0 boys · 58 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 819 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.
Mouna’s family of names
Mouna has a related form in Muna. Mouna has a related form in Mounia. Mouna has a related form in Munia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mouna
- Mouna FettouMoroccan actressborn 1970
- Mouna ChebbahTunisian woman handball playerborn 1982
- Mouna NoureddineTunisian actressborn 1939
- Mouna HachimMoroccan journalist (*1967)
- Mouna AyoubLebanese businesswomanborn 1957
- Mouna TraoréCanadian actor
- Mouna KarrayTunisian photographerborn 1970
- Mouna SabriMoroccan tennis playerborn 1984
- Mouna Osman AdenDjiboutian politician
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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