2007-10-31 08:29:05 · 11 answers · asked by Arin 1 in Travel ➔ Ireland ➔ Other - Ireland
A quick check shows it's primary usage as an Irish/ English name... an Anglicized version of MUADHNAIT (pronounced: MOO-nat ) from the OLD Irish for MOON
http://www.behindthename.com/name/mona-1
Yet the etymology (word history) shows it to have possibly have come from Germanic / Russian for MOON
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mona
OR the Scandinavian shortened "Monika" (Adviser)
NOWHERE in my search for the HISTORY of the name does it suggest that the name means "NOBLE" or any such foolishness... Moon actually suggests Mense or Messe
The Monna Lisa (Madonna Lisa) is the correct usage, Mona Lisa is the Anglicized version, because in fact: in the whole north-east of Italy, including Venice, "mona" is a rather obscene word denoting female pudenda,
2007-10-31 08:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The girl's name Mona \m(o)-na\ is pronounced MOH-nah. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is "noble, aristocratic". Also an Italian short form of Madonna. The "Mona Lisa", a portrait painted by Leonardo da Vinci, has inspired name blends. The name spread from Ireland in the mid 19th century.
2007-10-31 08:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mona is an Italian name, as in Mona Lisa. It probably was spread to Ireland through Roman Catholic missionaries.
2007-10-31 08:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The girl's name Mona \m(o)-na\ is pronounced MOH-nah. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is "noble, aristocratic". Also an Italian short form of Madonna.
2007-10-31 08:32:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Deffinately Italian. Leonardo Da Vinci's most famous work "Mona Lisa" did not come from Ireland.
2007-10-31 08:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Clearly it's not exclusively Irish. It's not a name I would call a child.
2007-10-31 19:29:22 · answer #6 · answered by Orla C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It is an Irish-Gaelic name meaning pure and firm.
2007-10-31 14:02:32 · answer #7 · answered by Agent319.007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is of Gaelic origin and means noble aristocrat
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Mona
2007-10-31 08:36:57 · answer #8 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-10-31 08:31:11 · answer #9 · answered by sexysaraxx 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. Its Italian
2007-10-31 08:31:05 · answer #10 · answered by sweetblueyes 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋