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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;

In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular, Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of Monika or, rarely, of Ramona or Simona. 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.
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.




= Notable people

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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 (born 1967), Egyptian-American activist
Mona Fandey (1956-2001), Malaysian singer and murderer
Mona Ghoneim (born 1955), Egyptian composer
Mona Gould (1905-1999), Canadian poet and broadcaster
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 (born 1987), 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 (1919-2014), American author, daughter of writer Berniece Baker Miracle and niece of actress Marilyn Monroe
Mona Nemer (born 1957), Lebanese-Canadian scientist
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 (born 1981), Indian actress, comedian and television presenter
Mona Shaito (born 1994) Lebanese-American fencer
Mona Shourie Kapoor (1964-2012), 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 Van Duyn (1921-2004), American poet
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 (born 1976), Egyptian actress




= Fictional characters

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Mona, an almost 3-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 Mars, a character in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
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 original Pretty Little Liars book and television 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


Mona Keijzer (born 1968), Dutch politician
Mona Mårtenson (1902–1956), Swedish film actress
Mona Pasquil (born 1962), American politician




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).
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


Mona (disambiguation)
Monica (given name)
Mouna (given name)
Muna (disambiguation)




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