Monika
Monika is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The name was spread through St. Monika von Tagaste , mother of the church father Augustine . Monika, Monica, Greek, Latin origin, meaning: hermit.
distribution
At the beginning of the 20th century, Monika was a rather unusual name for girls in Germany. From the mid-1930s, the first name quickly gained popularity. In the 1940s and 1950s, the name was among the ten most frequently given female first names, and in the early 1950s it was number one in the frequency statistics several times. Then its popularity began to decline gradually, from the early 1980s onwards.
name day
August 27 (before calendar reform 1970 : May 4 )
variants
- German: Mona , Moni
- Danish, English, Dutch, Italian, Romanian: Monica
- Esperanto: Moniko
- French: Monique
- Irish: Moncha
- Polish: Monika
- Portuguese: Mônica
- Romansh: Mengia
- Spanish: Mónica
- Hungarian: Mónika
Name bearers
Monica
- Monica Arnold (* 1980), American R&B singer and actress
- Monica Barbaro (* 1990), American actress
- Monica Bartheidel (1943–2012), German disabled athlete
- Monica Bellucci (born 1964), Italian actress
- Monica Beurer (* 1961), freelance Swiss photographer, lecturer in photography and author
- Monica Bielenstein (* 1948), German actress, voice actress and voice director
- Monica Bleibtreu (1944–2009), Austrian actress
- Mónica Cruz (* 1977), Spanish dancer and actress
- Monica Dickens (1915–1992), British writer, great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens
- Monica Esposito (1962–2011), Italian researcher on Daoism
- Monica Gruber (* 1947), Austrian actress and voice actress
- Monica Gschwind (* 1963), Swiss politician (FDP) and government councilor in Basel
- Monica Guerritore (born 1958), Italian actress
- Monica Heller (* 1955), Canadian linguist
- Monica Iacob-Ridzi (* 1977), Romanian politician and member of the European Parliament
- Monica Iagăr (* 1973), former Romanian high jumper
- Monica Ivancan (* 1977), German model
- Monica Jauca (* 1968), former Romanian biathlete
- Monica Jeffries (* 1985), Polish singer, composer and producer
- Monica Johnson (1946-2010), American screenwriter
- Monica Lewinsky (* 1973), American intern in the White House, known from the " Lewinsky Affair "
- Monica Lierhaus (* 1970), German sports presenter
- Monica Mæland (* 1968), Norwegian politician
- Monica Mayhem (* 1978), Australian porn actress
- Monica Morell (1953–2008), Swiss pop singer
- Monica Niculescu (* 1987), Romanian tennis player
- Monica Potter (* 1971), American actress
- Monica Reyes (* 1981), Austrian singer and actress
- Monica von Rosen Nestler (* 1943), German-Swedish artist
- Monica Seles (* 1973), American tennis player
- Monica Semedo (* 1984), Luxembourgish television presenter and politician
- Mónica Spear (1984-2014), Venezuelan model and actress
- Monica Vitti (born 1931), Italian actress
Monika
- Monika Baumgartner (* 1951), German folk actress and theater director
- Monika Bergmann (* 1978), German ski racer
- Monika Breustedt (* 1945), German painter, draftsman, photographer and object artist
- Monika Brodka (* 1987), Polish pop singer
- Monika Cassens (* 1953), German badminton player
- Monika Csampai (* 1963), German musicologist, singer and cultural manager
- Monika Dahlberg (* 1936), German actress and singer
- Monika Depta (* 1970), Polish orienteer
- Monika Dietl , German radio presenter
- Monika Fasnacht (* 1964), Swiss television presenter
- Monika Feth (* 1951), German journalist and author
- Monika Fornaçon (* 1964) German soccer referee
- Monika Götze (* 1963), German translator
- Monika Griefahn (* 1954), German politician
- Monika Gruber (* 1971), Bavarian cabaret artist
- Monika Hansen (* 1943), German actress
- Monika Harms (* 1946), German lawyer, Attorney General
- Monika Hohlmeier (* 1962), German politician
- Monika John (* 1935), German actress and voice actress
- Monika Kaserer (* 1952), Austrian ski racer
- Monika Krause-Fuchs (1941–2019), German-Cuban sexologist
- Monika Krautgartner (* 1961), Austrian writer
- Monika Kruse (* 1971), German techno DJ, music producer and label owner
- Monika Lee (* 1994), American-Filipino national soccer player
- Monika "Monne" Lentz (* 1987), German politician
- Monika Mann (1910–1992), German writer, daughter of Thomas Mann
- Monika Maron (* 1941) German writer
- Monika Martin (* 1962), Austrian singer
- Monika Meyer (soccer player) (* 1972), German soccer player
- Monika E. Müller , German art historian
- Monika Peitsch (* 1936), German actress
- Monika Pflug (* 1954), German speed skater
- Monika Piel (* 1951), German journalist and presenter
- Monika Plura (* 1985), German camerawoman
- Monika A. Pohl (* 1974), German non-fiction and specialist book author, lecturer and speaker
- Monika Rathert (* 1972), German linguist
- Monika Schnyder (* 1945), Swiss journalist and poet
- Monika Sozanska (* 1983), German sword fencer
- Monika Sperr (1941–1984), German writer
- Monika Steinmetz (* 1960), German soccer player
- Monika Waldhier (* in the 20th century), German alleged mystic
- Monika Wicki (* 1967), Swiss educational scientist
- Monika Wulf-Mathies (* 1942), German trade unionist, ÖTV chairwoman
- Monika Zinnenberg (* 1943), German actress and director.
Place names
- Santa Monica (California)
- Santa Mónica (Maldonado) , a locality in Uruguay
- Santa Mónica (San José) , a town in Uruguay
Popular culture
- Eskimonika, mascot of the Tine ice cream brand Diplom-Is (1936)
- Monika , operetta by Nico Dostal (1937)
- Die Zeit mit Monika , Swedish feature film by Ingmar Bergman (1953)
- My girl Monika, song by the Dutch singer Dave (1975)
- Monika Enterprise , German record label
swell
- ↑ The large first name dictionary. FA Brockhaus, Gütersloh / Munich 2013, p. 151.
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
- ↑ Dave - My girl Monika