Sunday, February 26, 2006

Behind the Name: The etymology and history of first names.

MÓNICA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: MO-nee-kah

MONICA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
Pronounced: MAHN-i-ka

Possibly means "advisor" from Latin moneo, but it is most likely of unknown North African or Phoenician origin. Saint Monica was the mother of Saint Augustine

What is the meaning of your name?

3 comments:

Bike Drool said...

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jugni said...

meaning of my name- well what ever it is one thing i know it has lots of significance of heart (mann) dont know why my parents had to give me an emotional name and definitely i always have to hear so many weird pronounciations of my name .but i love my name.well back to my buddy shakespear said whats in a name but i believe name says it all.
must say di u have a very "mast "name. see im becoming bambaiya.

Clueless said...

:)