Mona (name)

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Mona Given Name
Pronunciation	Mo-Nah
Gender	Female
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Mona

Mona or Monah is a female, and sometimes, but rarely, male given name of multiple origins.

Its meanings include:^{[citation needed]}

• Gaelic/Irish: Noble one (female)
• Arabic: Wishes (plural) (مُنى) (female)
• Persian: Wish/desire (female)
• Sanskrit: Alone (female)
• Native American: Gathered of the seed of a jimson weed (male and female)
• Italian: My Lady (contraction of Madonna)(female)
• Greek: Solitary (female)
• Swati: Jealous (male)

In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular, Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of Monika or, rarely, of Ramona. It is sometimes associated with the title of da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, although in that context the word Mona is actually a title rather than a name.

[edit] Famous people with this name

• Mona Ghoneim (born 1955), Egyptian composer
• Mona Hofland (born 1929), Norwegian actress
• Mona Marshall (born 1947), American voice actress
• Mona Sahlin (born 1957), Swedish politician
• Mona Siddiqui, British Muslim academic
• Mona Hatoum, Palastinian Borm British Artist

[edit] Fictional characters

• Mona Mayfair, character in several novels by Anne Rice
• Mona McCluskey, central character in television sitcom of the same name
• Mona Parker, central character in animated television series Mona the Vampire
• Mona, Ross Geller's girlfriend in the television series Friends, played by Bonnie Somerville

[edit] See also

• Mona (disambiguation page)
• Monica (given name)