Monika
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A less common spelling of Monica, used since the twentieth century.
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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.
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Monika f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Monica
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Danish edit
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Monika
- a female given name, alternative spelling of Monica
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Monika f
- Uncommon spelling of Monica.
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Monika
- a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Monica
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Etymology edit
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.
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Monika f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Monica
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Patronymics [1]
- son of Monika: Monikuson
- daughter of Moniku: Monikudóttir
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Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Monika |
Accusative | Moniku |
Dative | Moniku |
Genitive | Moniku |
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Finnish edit
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Monika
- a female given name
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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 Monikainrare | ||
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. |
Statistics edit
- 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.
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Monika f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Monika
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Monika
- a female given name, very popular in Germany in the 1940's and the 1950's
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Monika
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1877. From Latin Monica.
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Monika f
- a female given name
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Monika f
- a female given name
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Monika
- a female given name
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin Monica.
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Monika f (diminutive Monia or Moniczka or Monisia)
- a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Monica
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Further reading edit
- Monika in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian edit
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Monika f (Cyrillic spelling Моника)
- a female given name
Slovak edit
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Monika f (genitive singular Moniky, nominative plural Moniky, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
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Further reading edit
- “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
Swedish edit
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From Latin Monica. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1785 as Monica.
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Monika c (genitive Monikas)
- a female given name
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- 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.