Monica

[DaisyDream44]

What do you think of Monica for a girl? I really like how it sounds, but the meanings are leader, advisor, alone, lonely :( And I have no idea how you would shorten the name. Mon? Nica?
Any thoughts?

How about Monana? It's Dutch. Pennsylvania Dutch.

Perhaps do a little 'Friends' research OP...

(lol at Pennsylvania Dutch but given the OP clearly not a Friends fan surely a heads up is fair..)

Look up Summer With Monika by Roger McGough. A lovely name.
'I spent summer with Monika and she spent summer with me.'

It's still there on the corner of my bookcase. A beautiful reminder of first love and independence.

And, if you appreciate jokes from scouse land: 'Doctor, I keep thinking I'm mouth organ.'
'That's funny I had a girl in here the other day saying the same.'
'That'll be our Monika' Boom Tish.

I've met two Monika/Monicas and they were both amazing. NN Moni

I have a lovely Monica. Gets called Monnie & Nicky equally.

Straightforward, internationally pronounceable, easy to spell. She’s the only one in any classroom, so easier to label everything with just her first name.

I liked the musical connection- Har-Monica (as does she).
Also the fact that St Monica is the patron saint of parents of wayward/disappointing children [as the mother of St Augustine]. I thought that would be useful in later life!

I recommend the name, never had a moment’s regret with it.

Oh and I nearly forgot. My own private joke in calling my dd Monica.

It was a little rebellion against all the modern angst about what to call your baby.

Moniker means ‘name’, right? So I named my baby the word name. Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, competing grandmas!!

To paraphrase Hannah Gadsby could we stop shaming Monica Lewinsky and making her the target of jokes?

And it is a lovely name.

I can't make my mind up! I think I do like it.... but I can't really think of anything other than Friends lol.

I could never use it since I have a Phoebe 😂

No, it's very old fashioned and it's like her out of Friends.
Laughing at Monana and Pennslyvania Dutch.
catch up on Friends OP.

Like it a lot. I considered it for DD3 but while pg the Lewinsky/Clinton thing hit the news and I reconsidered. I regret it a bit now as of course that is ancient history.

I know two Monicas, one who goes by Nik (occasionally 'knickers') and one who is Mon.

How about Monana? It's Dutch. Pennsylvania Dutch