Entry № 6979 · Italian origin

Mona Mona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"My lady (the Mona Lisa; Mona Eltahawy, feminist activist)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "my lady (the mona lisa; mona eltahawy, feminist activist)".

Mona has independent roots: Italian — short form of Madonna ("my lady"); Irish Muadhnait — "noble"; Arabic munā (منى) — "wishes, desires." The Mona Lisa — Leonardo da Vinci's c. Mona Charen — American political commentator.

My lady. The Mona Lisa is the most-visited artwork in human history (8M+ visitors annually).

The name in its native script.

Mona
Transliteration
Mona
Pronunciation
/ ˈmoʊ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mona stands.

Mona 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.

Monas before her.

Real people
Lisa Gherardini
Subject of Mona Lisa.
1479 – 1542
Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian American journalist.
born 1967
Mona Singh
Indian actress.
born 1981
In fiction
Mona Lisa Vito
My Cousin Vinny.
1992

Names connected to Mona.

The number behind Mona.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mona reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.