Mona is a female, and sometimes male, given name and a surname of multiple origins.
As a given name, Mona can have the following meanings and origins; In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular,[citation needed] Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of Monika or, rarely, of Ramona or Simona.
[citation needed] It is sometimes associated with the title of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, although in that context the word Mona is actually a title rather than a name.
The word mona also means cute, monkey and doll in Spanish.
In Arabic countries, it is derived from the given name Muna, meaning "unreachable wishes".