Given name
Mounia
“one who is desired”
Mounia is a variant of Mouna. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mounia is a variant of Mouna. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mounia is a variant of Mouna. An origin associated with Mouna is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mounia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 5 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 1987. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 285 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mounia
- Mounia MeddourFranco-Algerian film directorborn 1978
- Mounia GasmiAlgerian Paralympianborn 1990
- Mounia MeslemAlgerian politician Minister of Family and Womenborn 1961
- Mounia BourguigueMoroccan taekwondo practitionerborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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