Mona
From the Greek for "noble". In Poland it stays rare: only about 140 women carry it, and most people here have never met one.
Mona Pronunciation
Mona is pronounced MO-nah (/ˈmɔna/).
What Mona means
Where Mona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mona comes into Polish from a Greek root, and the name travels light. It has no standard diminutives here, no cross-gender twin, just the four letters themselves. The short meaning attached to it is szlachetna, noble. That sense came to the name later, laid over older sounds rather than pulled from any single word.
Part of what lets Mona feel at home in several countries is its double life abroad. In Scandinavia it works as a short form of Monica, a common given name in Norway and Sweden. In Arabic, Muna is a separate word meaning wishes or hopes, and the spelling Mona often stands in for it. Two unrelated traditions meet in one small name.
In a Polish class register, Mona sits short and unmistakable between longer entries. It needs no nickname to soften it. The meaning the name keeps here is plain: noble, szlachetna.
How many people are named Mona
1 in 158759 women in Poland is named Mona. 142 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2752 among female names.
Mona's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Mona as a middle name
Mona is a first name for 142 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1379th, between Michela (27) and Nelia (27).
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#1377 Mariela27
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#1378 Michela27
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#1379 Mona27
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#1380 Nelia27
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#1381 Nelli27