mona · noun1
- Spanish · borrowed frommona“monkey”
- English todaymona
From Spanish mona (“monkey”).
Mona · proper noun2
- Middle Irish · derived frommúad“noble”
- Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromMuadhnait
- English todayMona
Anglicized from Irish and Scottish Gaelic Muadhnait, from Middle Irish múad (“noble”). In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular, Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of Monica or, rarely, of Ramona, and sometimes associated with the title of da Vinci's painting Mona (=madonna) Lisa. The Arabic and Persian name مُنىٰ (munā) is sometimes Romanised as Mona.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.