How rare is the name Monet?

3,894 people in the United States have the first name Monet, about 1 in 77,563. It ranks #4,686 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MONET

#4,686

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,894
About
1 in 77,563
This common or more
84.4%
Who bears it

Of the 3,894 people named Monet, 55.9% reported their origin as Black, 19% as White and 14% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Monet peaked in 1997, when 175 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19522025
Peak year
1997
Births that year
175
In 2025*
40 ▼77%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,552 babies have been given the name since 1952. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Monet by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #2,083. The largest share of babies named Monet, 39.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#10,13425
1960s#5,404138
1970s#4,091301
1980s#2,535781
1990s#2,0831,483
2000s#3,0061,162
2010s#6,369420
2020s#6,515242
Baby boom 1946–642.1%
Generation X 1965–809.4%
Millennials 1981–9637.6%
Generation Z 1997–1239.6%
2013 and later11.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Monet is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Monet has been most common in District of Columbia (5.4×), Maryland (4.3×), and California (3.5×), and least common in Georgia (0.44×).

2,429 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Monet, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Monet ranks #43,428 of 156,621, with 536 people. See Monet as a last name

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