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Monica vs Montanna

American parents have registered 252,257 Monicas since 1880, against 924 Montannas. Monica is still ahead, with 371 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Monica against Montanna, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Monica Montanna

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

Monica has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Monica had 2,134 and Montanna had 84.

Side by side

  Monica Montanna
Total US births 252,257924
Most in one year 6,61992
Babies in 2025 371under 5
Estimated living today 229,000910
Median age today 4625
Peak year 19791998
Best rank 40th girls1,801st girls
Rank in 2025 736thunranked
First recorded 18801985
Girls / boys 251,274 / 983896 / 28

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Monicas alive today are over 46; half the Montannas are over 25. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Monica Montanna
England and Wales 1,62985

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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