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Mona is a
female , and sometimes
male ,
given name and a
surname of multiple origins.
Given name
As a given name, Mona can have the following meanings and origins;
Language
Source
Meaning
Variant forms
Gender
Arabic
Variant transliteration of Muna (مُنى)
Wish
[1]
Muna, Mouna
Female
Breton
Variant of Marivona
Female
Formosan :
Atayal
Seediq
Atayal: Male Seediq: Male and Female
Gaelic /
Irish
Anglicized form of Muadhnait [
citation needed ]
Noble One
Monah, Monna, Monya
Female
Greek
Monos (μονος)
Solitary, One
Female
Early
Italian
Contraction of the title
Madonna
My lady
Female
Miwok
Gathered of the seed of a
jimson weed .
Male and Female
Nepalese
Bud
Muna
Female
Old English
Moon
Female
Persian
منا or مونا
An adjective for God, derives from Mana, means who lasts forever
Female
Scottish
Female form of Tormod, derived from Norman
Northman,
Viking
[2]
Female
Sanskrit
Alone, silence
Female
Teutonic
Loner
Female
In
northern Europe , where the name is much more popular,[
citation needed ] Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of
Monika or, rarely, of
Ramona or
Simona .[
citation needed ] It is sometimes associated with the title of
Leonardo da Vinci 's painting
Mona Lisa , although in that context the word Mona is actually a title rather than a name. The word mona also means cute , monkey and doll in
Spanish . In
Sweden , Mona's
name day is May 4.
[3]
Mona was a relatively popular given name in the
United States in the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s. The highest ranking it ever reached in the US was #230, in 1950.
[4]
Notable people
Mona Achache (born 1981), French-Moroccan film director, actress and screenwriter
Mona Barthel (born 1990), German professional tennis player
Mona Beaumont (1927–2007), French-born American painter, printmaker
Mona Berglund Nilsson (born 1942), Swedish politician
Mona Charen (born 1957), American columnist and political analyst
Mona Eltahawy , Egyptian-American activist
Mona Fandey , Malaysian singer and murderer
Mona Ghoneim (born 1955), Egyptian composer
Mona Grudt (born 1971), former Miss Universe from Norway
Mona Hanna-Attisha (born 1976), pediatrician, public health advocate and
Flint Water Crisis whistleblower
Mona Hatoum (born 1952), British artist of Palestinian origin
Mona Hofland (1929–2010), Norwegian actress
Mona Johannesson , Swedish model
Mona Karim , Lebanese actress
Mona Keijzer (born 1968), Dutch politician
Mona Khazinder (born 1959), Saudi art curator and historian
Mona Mahmudnizhad (1965–1983), Iranian teen executed for membership of the Bahá'í faith
Mona Marshall (born 1947), American voice actress
Mona Faiz Montrage (
Mona 4Reall ) (born 1993), Ghanaian socialite and musician
Mona Rae Miracle (born 1939), American author, daughter of writer
Berniece Baker Miracle and niece of actress
Marilyn Monroe
Mona Rai , final minister of Gour (Sylhet)
Mona Rudo (1880-1930), Seediq leader of the
Musha Incident , an anti-Japanese movement during the period of Taiwan under Japanese rule.
Mona Sahlin (born 1957), Swedish politician
Mona Siddiqui (born 1963), British Muslim academic
Mona Singh , Indian actress, comedian and television presenter
Mona Shaito (born 1994) Lebanese-American fencer
Mona Shourie Kapoor , Indian television and film producer
Mona L. Siegel , American scholar, author, and historian
Mona Simpson (born 1957), American novelist of Syrian and German descent
Mona Tougaard (born 2002), Danish fashion model
Mona von Bismarck (1897–1983) American socialite and fashion icon
Mona Williams (1905–1991), American novelist and poet
Mona Williams (Guyanese writer) (born 1943), Guyanese-New Zealand storyteller and educator
Mona Zaki , Egyptian actress
Fictional characters
Mona, a 2-year old green-skinned girl, main character in the YTV short series
Nanalan'
Mona, a character in the 1986 American fantasy drama film
The Boy Who Could Fly
Mona, an alchemist with green skin from the
Shovel Knight video games
Mona Aamons Monzano in Kurt Vonnegut's novel
Cat's Cradle
Mona Bergeron, the main character in the 1985 French film
Vagabond (Sans Toit ni Loi)
Mona Dearly, played by Bette Midler in the 2000 film
Drowning Mona
Mona Lott, a recurrent character in the 1929–1949 BBC Radio series
It's That Man Again
Mona Mayfair in several novels by Anne Rice
Mona McCluskey , main character in television sitcom of the same name
Astrologist Mona Megistus (
Chinese : 莫娜 ), a hydromancer and playable character from the video game
Genshin Impact . She claims her name to mean “The Great Astrologist Mona.”
Mona Melendy in
Elizabeth Enright 's children's book series "The Melendy Quartet"
Mona Mullins, a character in the TV sitcoms
Top of the Heap and
Vinnie & Bobby
Mona Parker , the main character in the animated television series
Mona the Vampire and the
book of the same name
Mona Ramsey in the
Tales of the City books by
Armistead Maupin
Mona Robinson, mother of Angela Bower in the television series
Who's the Boss?
Mona Rowan, a character in the 1951 novel
Camilla Dickinson
Mona Sax in the Max Payne franchise
Mona Simpson (The Simpsons ) ,
Homer Simpson 's estranged mother
Mona Sterling Pike , Roger Sterling's first wife on
Mad Men
Mona Stevens in the novel
Landfall: A Channel Story by
Nevil Shute and its film adaptation
Mona Wilder, a shape-shifter in the TV adaptation of
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Mona Vanderwaal in the Pretty Little Liars novel series
Mona, Ross Geller's girlfriend in the television series
Friends , played by
Bonnie Somerville
Mona, a young prostitute in the novel
Mona Lisa Overdrive by
William Gibson
Mona, a character in the
WarioWare series of video games
Mona Franklin, Nadine's mum in The Edge of Seventeen
Nickname
Surname
As a surname, Mona can have two origins. In
Italian and
Greek , it is a feminine form of Moni which is a short form of Simone , the Italian form of
Simon . In
Arabic countries, it is derived from the given name Muna , meaning "unreachable wishes". It is the plural form of the word Munia (مـُـنيه).
[5]
Notable people with the surname include:
Domenico Mona (1550–1602), Italian late-Renaissance painter
István Móna (1940–2010), Hungarian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion
Khwezi Mona (born 1992), South African rugby union player
See also
References