Monique
Monique reached its high-water mark in 1980 at number 93, and has been recorded 79,160 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,342nd. About 75,000 Moniques are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Monique boys named Monique
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 79,160
- Estimated living today
- 75,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 93rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,342nd
- First recorded
- 1909
- Girls / boys
- 78,783 / 377
How old the living Moniques are
born that year still alive today
Of the 79,160 babies given the name since 1909, about 75,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Moniques
- Monique Wittig (1935–2003)French writer
- Mo'Nique (born 1967)American stand-up comedian and actress
- Monique Alexander (born 1982)American pornographic actress
- Monique Coleman (born 1980)American actress
- Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (born 1942)former vice president of Mauritius
- Monique van de Ven (born 1952)Dutch film director and actress
- Monique Hennagan (born 1976)US-american athletics competitor
- Monique Henderson (born 1983)American 400 meters runner
People named Monique with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Monique is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Monique is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (3.2×), New Mexico (3.2×), California (2.4×), Arizona (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular girls’ names the year Monique peaked:
Monique elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Monique | 399,660 | 2nd |
| New Zealand girls | Monique | 1,859 | 49th |
| England and Wales girls | Monique +1 spelling | 1,120 | 288th |
| France boys | Monique | 400 | 440th |
| Scotland girls | Monique | 113 | 337th |
| Ireland girls | Monique | 44 | 307th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Monique | 3 | 344th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Monique among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Monique | 39,351 | 48,092 |
| the Netherlands boys | Monique | — | 434 |
| Finland girls | Monique | 16 | 50 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Monique lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 505 women called Monique were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Monique | 28 | 0.068 | 1,066 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Monique | 68 | 0.066 | 1,089 |
| Balears, Illes | Monique | 34 | 0.054 | 1,220 |
| Málaga | Monique | 40 | 0.044 | 1,291 |
| Palmas, Las | Monique | 20 | 0.034 | 2,298 |
| Almería | Monique | 12 | 0.032 | 1,728 |
Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Monique against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.