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Monic vs Monique

American parents have registered 79,160 Moniques since 1880, against 509 Monics. Monique is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Monic against Monique, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Monic Monique

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Monique has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1909 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Monic had 7 and Monique had 116.

Side by side

  Monic Monique
Total US births 50979,160
Most in one year 283,182
Babies in 2025 under 546
Estimated living today 49075,000
Median age today 4342
Peak year 19831980
Best rank 2,975th girls93rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,342nd
First recorded 19641909
Girls / boys 509 / 078,783 / 377

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Monic and Monique.