Monicah
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Monicah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 968◐
- MWMalawi1 in 21K
- UGUganda1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈176 ●
- Sources
- 69 ●
- 1 in 1.1M ◐
across 3 countries
7.0K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #162 | 29,782 | 5.2K rec. | — | — | Monicah | 54 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 397 | 407 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 14 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 182 | 296 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 15 |
| US United States | — | 163 | 579 rec. | 1 in 2M | 163 | Monicah | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 96 | 47 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 18 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 61 | 2 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 9 |
| AU Australia | — | 60 | 53 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 22 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 30 | 17 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 21 | 18 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 14 |
| MW Malawi | — | 20 | 1 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 4 |
| UG Uganda | #683 | 19 | 9 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | 18 | 11 rec. | — | — | Monicah | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili31K96%
- English6922%
- Arabic1481%
- Spanish611%
- German421%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 30,756 | 96% |
| English | 692 | 2% |
| Arabic | 148 | 1% |
| Spanish | 61 | 1% |
| German | 42 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 163 | #43,210 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #49,665 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #39,867 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #15,933 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #43,210 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Monicah?
- We estimate roughly 176 people bear Monicah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Monicah have the most bearers?
- Monicah is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled monicah.
- How common is Monicah compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Monicah is the 162nd most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Monicah a male or female name?
- Monicah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Monicah” — the 162nd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.