Mona (name)

Mona
Pronunciation	/ˈmoʊnə/ MOH-nə
Gender	Female
Origin
Meaning	various
Other names
Related names	Monica, Ramona, Simona

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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 transcription of Muna (مُنى)	Wishes^[1]	Muna, Mouna	Female
Gaelic/Irish	Anglicized form of Muadhnait	Noble One	Monah, Monna, Monya	Female
Greek	Monos (μονος)	Solitary, One		Female
Ancient 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		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,unique		Female
Teutonic		Loner		Female

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.^[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]

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

Mona Barthel, professional tennis player
Mona Charen, political columnist
Mona Ghoneim (born 1955), Egyptian composer
Mona Grudt (born 1971), former Miss Universe from Norway
Mona Hatoum (born 1952), British artist of Palestinian origin
Mona Hofland (born 1929), Norwegian actress
Mona Keijzer (born 1968), Dutch politician
Mona Mahmudnizhad (born 1965), Iranian woman executed for membership of the Bahá'í Faith
Mona Marshall (born 1947), American voice actress
Mona Sahlin (born 1957), Swedish politician
Mona Siddiqui (born 1963), British Muslim academic
Mona Simpson (born 1957), American novelist
Mona von Bismarck (1897–1983) American socialite fashion icon
Mona Zaki, Egyptian actress
Mona, ring name of Americanl wrestler Nora Greenwald
Mona Vidal (born 1995), missionary

Fictional characters

Mona Stevens, in Landfall by Nevil Shute
Mona from the WarioWare series
Mona, Ross Geller's girlfriend in the television series Friends, played by Bonnie Somerville
Mona Mayfair in several novels by Anne Rice
Mona McCluskey, main character in television sitcom of the same name
Mona Aamons Monzano, the only beautiful woman on San Lorenzo, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle
Mona Parker, main character from the animated television series Mona the Vampire and the book of the same name
Mona Ramsey, female character from the Tales of the City books by Armistead Maupin Portrayed first by Chloe Webb and then by Nina Siemaszko.
Mona Sax, the lead female character in the film.
Mona Simpson (The Simpsons) Homer Simpson's estranged mother.
Mona Vanderwaal in Pretty Little Liars
In Mona Lisa Overdrive, the final novel of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Mona is a young prostitute
Mona Bergeron, main character in the 1985 French film Vagabond (Sans Toit ni Loi)

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