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 •
Mona Achache (born 1981), French-Moroccan film director, actress and screenwriter •
Mona Baptiste (1926–1993), Trinidad and Tobago-born singer and actress •
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 Kattan, Iraqi-American CEO of KayAli •
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 Rockman Napaljarri (born ), Australian artist •
Mona Nemer (born 1957), Lebanese-Canadian scientist •
Mona Perreault, American politician •
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 Zaalouk (1947–1995), Egyptian painter, tapestry designer •
Mona Zaki (born 1976), Egyptian actress •
Mona Yamamoto (山本モナ born 2004), Japanese keirin cyclist
Fictional characters • Mona, an almost three-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, the codename for
Morgana, a character from the 2016 video game
Persona 5 • Mona, a character in 2020 video game
Genshin Impact • 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 • 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
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