Monineath
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Meaning
meaning uncertain; famously borne by Queen Norodom Monineath of Cambodia, queen consort
The story
Monineath is a Khmer royal name whose precise meaning is uncertain, and it is known to the world through one bearer: Queen Norodom Monineath of Cambodia. Born in 1936 to a Cambodian mother and a French-Italian banker father, she married King Norodom Sihanouk in the early 1950s and stayed at his side through everything the next half century brought: exile, war, the horror of the Khmer Rouge years, and restoration. Cambodians came to regard her devotion as legendary, and since her son Norodom Sihamoni took the throne in 2004 she has been honored as queen mother. Her name, adapted for her within the palace, barely exists outside Cambodia, and American records show no more than a faint recent trace. For a family who wants a name with a single steadfast story behind it, Monineath is exactly that.
How popular is Monineath around the world?
Monineath does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. Monineath is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
United States
under 5 a year
Monineath does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
South Australia
last on record 2007
Monineath is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Monineath deep dive
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