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A less common spelling of Monica, used since the twentieth century.
Monika
- A female given name from Latin.
2008, Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth, Knopf, →ISBN, page 94:
Both Maya and Monika had inherited Megan's coloring, without a trace of Amit's deeply tan skin and black eyes, so that apart from their vaguely Indian names they appeared fully American.
female given name — see Monica
Monika f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Monica
Monika
- a female given name, alternative spelling of Monica
Monika f
- Uncommon spelling of Monica.
Monika
- a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Monica
From Latin Monica, name of the mother of St. Augustine, of uncertain origin and meaning; suggestions include Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone”) and Latin moneō (“I advise”), but likely of Punic origin.
Monika f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Monica
Patronymics [1]
- son of Monika: Monikuson
- daughter of Moniku: Monikudóttir
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Monika |
Accusative | Moniku |
Dative | Moniku |
Genitive | Moniku |
Monika
- a female given name
Inflection of Monika (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Monika | Monikat | |
genitive | Monikan | Monikoiden Monikoitten | |
partitive | Monikaa | Monikoita | |
illative | Monikaan | Monikoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Monika | Monikat | |
accusative | nom. | Monika | Monikat |
gen. | Monikan | ||
genitive | Monikan | Monikoiden Monikoitten Monikain rare | |
partitive | Monikaa | Monikoita | |
inessive | Monikassa | Monikoissa | |
elative | Monikasta | Monikoista | |
illative | Monikaan | Monikoihin | |
adessive | Monikalla | Monikoilla | |
ablative | Monikalta | Monikoilta | |
allative | Monikalle | Monikoille | |
essive | Monikana | Monikoina | |
translative | Monikaksi | Monikoiksi | |
abessive | Monikatta | Monikoitta | |
instructive | — | Monikoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
- Monika is the 434th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 885 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,037 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Monika f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Monika
Monika
- a female given name, very popular in Germany in the 1940's and the 1950's
Monika
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1877. From Latin Monica.
Monika f
- a female given name
Monika f
- a female given name
Monika
- a female given name
Learned borrowing from Latin Monica.
Monika f (diminutive Monia or Moniczka or Monisia)
- a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Monica
- Monika in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Monika f (Cyrillic spelling Моника)
- a female given name
- “Monika”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
Monika f (genitive singular Moniky, nominative plural Moniky, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
- “Monika”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
From Latin Monica. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1785 as Monica.
Monika c (genitive Monikas)
- a female given name
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 42 497 females with the given name Monika (compared to 29 766 named Monica) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June, 2011.