Monet

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 36 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
36
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4201
5 babies

Monet by the numbers

In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Monet. In the US, 36 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 175 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Monet

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Monet. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Montezmountains31 in the US (2017)
  • Maneha unit of weight or currency16 in the US (2017)
  • Monae13 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Monai7 in the US (2017)
  • Monay6 in the US (2017)
  • Monti6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Monet

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