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Monika Monika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ moh-NEE-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Saint Monica mother of Augustine (Polish + Catholic)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "saint monica mother of augustine (polish + catholic)".

Monika is from the Polish Monika — from Latin Monica from Greek monos (alone/unique) or Phoenician Mona. Monika is one of the Polish feminine names — central to traditional Polish Catholic + European heritage.

Saint Monica mother of Augustine (Polish).

The name in its native script.

Monika
Transliteration
Monika
Pronunciation
/ moʊˈniː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Monika stands.

Monika does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Monikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Monica of Hippo
Mother of Saint Augustine + Berber-Christian of Tagaste Numidia + Augustine's Confessions + witnessed his baptism by Ambrose Easter 387 + patron of mothers + wives + difficult marriages + feast August 27.
c. 332 – 387 CE

Names connected to Monika.

The number behind Monika.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Monika reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.