Entry № 6985 · French origin

Monique Monique — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ moh-NEEK /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Advisor (Mo'Nique, Precious Oscar)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "advisor (mo'nique, precious oscar)".

Monique is the French form of Monica — possibly from the Greek monos (alone, solitary) or the African Berber name Mūnaq. Monique Lhuillier — Filipino-American bridal designer. Monique Sluyter — Miss Universe Netherlands 1994.

Advisor. Mo'Nique was the first solo Black female stand-up comedian to win an acting Oscar (2010).

The name in its native script.

Monique
Transliteration
Monique
Pronunciation
/ moʊˈniːk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Monique stands.

Monique 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.

Moniques before her.

Real people
Mo'Nique
American Oscar comedian.
born 1967
Monique Coleman
American actress (HSM).
born 1980
Monique Lhuillier
Filipino-American designer.
born 1971
In fiction
Monique
Various American film.

Names connected to Monique.

The number behind Monique.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Monique reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.