Monique

Monique
Pronunciation	/moʊˈniːk/ moh-NEEK
Gender	Female
Language(s)	French
Origin
Meaning	Advisor
Region of origin	France
Other names
Related names	Monica; Monika; Moonika; Mona;

Monique is a female given name. It is the French form of the name Monica. The name has enjoyed some popularity in the United States since about 1955, and is less common in other English-speaking countries except for Canada although mostly used by French speakers in Quebec and is rare in the English parts of Canada.

Notable people named Monique

Acting

Monique Alves Frankenhuis (1962–1994), Brazilian actress
Monique Alfradique (born 1986), Brazilian actress
Monique Chaumette (born 1927), French actress
Monique Coleman (born 1980), American actress, singer, and dancer
Monique Curi (born 1969), Brazilian actress
Monique Gabriela Curnen (born 1970), American actress
Monique Dupree (born 1974), American actress
Monique Evans (born 1956), Brazilian television personality
Monique Evans (born 1992), American beauty pageant titleholder
Monique Gabrielle (born 1963), American actress
Mo'Nique Hicks (born 1967), American actress and comedian
Monique Joyce (1912–1994), French actress
Monique Kirsanoff (1913–2008), French film editor
Monique Leyrac (1928-2019), Canadian singer and actress
Monique Loudières (born 1956), French ballet dancer and teacher
Monique Mélinand (1916–2012), French actress
Monique Mercure (1930–2020), Canadian actress
Monique L. Midgette, American actress
Monique Miller (born 1933), French Canadian actress
Monique Mojica, Canadian playwright, director, and actor
Monique Noel (born 1967), American glamour model and actress
Monique van de Ven (born 1952), Dutch actress and film director
Monique Heart (born 1986), the stage name of American drag queen Kevin Richardson
Monique Williams, actress in Australian television series The Sleepover Club

Music

Monique Brumby (born 1974), Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Monique Brynnel, Swedish-Australian operatic soprano
Monique Buzzarté (born 1960), American composer, trombonist, and activist
Monique Desroches (born 1948), Québécois ethnomusicologist
Monique Gendron, Canadian organist
Monique Haas (1909–1987), French pianist
Monique de La Bruchollerie (1915–1972), French pianist
Monique diMattina (born 1971), Australian jazz pianist, singer and composer
Monique Melsen (born 1951), Luxembourgian singer
Monique Mund-Dopchie (born 1943), Belgian classicist
Monique Powell, singer for American ska band Save Ferris
Monique Rhodes, New Zealand singer, songwriter, and producer
Tamia Monique Carter, given name of rapper Flo Milli

Politics

Monique Andréas Esoavelomandroso (born 1945), Malagasy politician
Monique Barbut (born 1956), French politician
Monique Bauer-Lagier (1922–2006), Swiss politician
Monique Boulestin (born 1951), French politician
Monique Bozizé, Central African politician
Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga (1942–2021), French politician
Monique Chandler-Waterman, American politician
Monique D. Davis (born 1936), American politician
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay (born 1940), Canadian politician
Monique Guay (born 1959), Quebec politician
Monique Holsey-Hyman, American politician
Monique Iborra (born 1945), French politician
Monique Jérôme-Forget (born 1940), Canadian politician
Monique Koeyers-Felida (1967–2016), Curaçaoan politician
Monique Lagdameo (born 1975), Filipino politician
Monique Landry (born 1937), Canadian politician
Monique LeBlanc, Canadian politician
Monique Limon (born 1953), French politician
Monique Limón (born 1979), American politician
Monique Lubin (born 1963), French politician
Monique Mukaruliza, Rwandan politician
Monique Mukuna Mutombo (born 1974), Congolese politician
Monique Orphé (born 1964), French politician
Monique Papon (1934–2018), French politician
Monique Pauzé, Quebec politician
Monique Priestley, Vermont politician
Monique Richard (born 1947), Quebec politician
Monique Smith (Canadian politician) (born c. 1965), Ontario politician
Monique Vézina (born 1935), Canadian politician
Monique de Vries (born 1947), Dutch politician
Monique Wilson (politician), Saban politician

Sports

Monique Adamczak (born 1983), Australian professional tennis player
Monique Adams (born 1970), American volleyball player
Monique Albuquerque (born 1991), Brazilian tennis player
Monique Allen (born 1971), Australian gymnast
Monique Ambers (born 1970), American basketball player and coach
Monique Angermüller (born 1984), German speed skater
Monique Baelden (1938–2015), French gymnast
Monique Bantégny (born 1940), French pentathlete
Monique Barry, New Zealand tennis player
Monique Berlioux (1923–2015), French swimmer
Monique Billings (born 1996), American basketball player
Monique Bolleboom (born 1962), Dutch artistic gymnast
Monique Bosga (born 1960), Dutch swimmer
Monique de Bruin (born 1965), Dutch cyclist
Monique de Bruin (born 1977), American fencer
Monique Burkland (born 1989), American Paralympic volleyball player
Monique Cabral (born 1986), Trinidadian sprinter
Monique Cilione (born 1994), Australian javelin thrower
Monique Conti (born 1999), Australian basketball player
Monique Coupat (born 1955), French rower
Monique Currie (born 1983), American basketball player
Monique Drilhon (1922–2019), French sprinter
Monique Drost (born 1964), Dutch swimmer
Monique van de Elzen (born 1976), New Zealand footballer
Monique Éwanjé-Épée (born 1967), French track and field athlete
Monique Ferreira (born 1980), Brazilian freestyle swimmer
Monique Fischer (born 1991), Samoan footballer
Monique Freres (born 1957), Belgian gymnast
Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (born 1968), German speed skater
Monique Gladding (born 1981), British diver
Monique Heinke (born 1973), Australian rower
Monique Henderson (born 1983), American track and field athlete
Monique Hennagan (born 1976), American track and field athlete
Monique Hirovanaa (born 1966), New Zealand rugby player
Monique Hollick (born 1989), Australian rules footballer
Monique Hoogland (born 1967), Dutch badminton player
Monique Iannella (born 1996), Australian professional footballer
Monique Jansen (born 1978), Dutch discus thrower
Monique Javer (born 1967), American-born British professional tennis player
Monique Jenkinson (born 1971) also known as Fauxnique, is an American artist, choreographer, drag performer and author
Monique Jones (born 1979), American bodybuilder
Monique Kalkman-Van Den Bosch (born 1964), Dutch wheelchair tennis player
Monique Kauffmann (born 1963), Dutch road cyclist and speed skater
Monique Kavelaars (born 1971), Canadian fencer
Monique Kengné (born 1965), Cameroonian sprinter
Monique Kerschowski (born 1988), German footballer
Monique Kiene (born 1974), Dutch tennis player
Monique Knol (born 1964), Dutch racing cyclist
Monique Lamoureux (born 1989), American ice hockey player
Monique Leroux (1938–1985), French fencer
Monique Lessmeister (born 1987), German darts player
Monique Mathys (born 1945), Swiss figure skater
Monique Merrill (born 1969), American ski mountaineer and mountain biker
Monique Murphy (born 1994), Australian swimmer
Monique Olivier (born 1998), Luxembourgian swimmer
Monique Proulx (1947–2012), Canadian racing driver
Monique Riekewald (born 1979), German skeleton racer
Monique de Vries (born 1947), Australian sailor
Monique Williams (born 1985), New Zealand sprinter
Monique de Wilt (born 1976), Dutch pole vaulter

Other fields

Monique Adolphe (1932–2022), French cell biologist
Monique Alexander (born 1982), American pornographic actress
Monique Barbeau, Canadian executive chef
Monique Bégin (1936–2023), Canadian academic and former politician
Monique de Bissy (1923–2009), French-Belgian World War II resistance member
Monique Boekaerts (born 1946), Belgian educationalist
Monique Bosco (1927–2007), Austrian-born Canadian journalist and writer
Monique Breteler, Dutch neuro epidemiologist
Monique Canto-Sperber (born 1954), French philosopher
Monique Charbonneau (1928–2014), Canadian artist
Monique Marie Chouraeshkenazi (born 1983), American professor
Monique Chyba, control theorist
Monique Combescure (born 1950), French mathematical physicist
Monique Corriveau (1927–1976), Canadian writer
Monique Cossard, French-American educator
Monique Dauge, French mathematician
Monique Deland (born 1958), Quebecer poet
Monique Deveaux, Canadian philosopher
Monique Fiso (born 1987), New Zealand-Samoan chef and author
Monique Ganderton (born 1980), Canadian stuntwoman
Monique Gray Smith, Canadian writer
Monique Hanotte (1920–2022), Belgian resistance member
Monique Harvey (1950–2001), Canadian painter
Monique Ilboudo, Burkinabé author and human rights activist
Monique Jacot (1934–2024), Swiss photographer and photojournalist
Monique Jeanblanc, French mathematician and economist
Monique Journod (1935–2024), French painter and lithographer
Monique Keraudren (1928–1981), French botanist
Monique Laederach (1938–2004), Swiss writer and translator
Monique LaRue (born 1948), Canadian writer
Monique Laurent, French computer scientist and mathematician
Monique Lhuillier (born 1971), Filipino-American fashion designer
Monique Luiz (born 1961), American former child model
Monique Mayère, French artist
Monique Morrow, Swiss-American tech executive
Monique Mujawamariya (born 1955), Rwandan activist
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, American evolutionary anthropologist
Monique Péan (born c. 1981), American fine jewelry designer
Monique Pinçon-Charlot (born 1946), French sociologist
Monique Proulx (born 1952), Canadian author and screenwriter
Monique Régimbald-Zeiber (born 1947), Canadian painter
Monique de Roux (born 1946), French painter and engraver
Monique de Saint-Martin, French sociologist
Monique Schwitter (born 1972), Swiss writer and actress
Monique Sené, French nuclear physicist
Monique Truong (born 1968), Vietnamese-American writer
Monique Vinh Thuy (1946–2021), widow of Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại
Monique Wadsted (born 1957), Swedish lawyer
Monique Wittig (1935–2003), French writer and feminist theorist
Monique Wright (born 1973), Australian journalist and television personality
Norodom Monineath (born 1936), queen mother of Cambodia, sometimes referred to as Queen Monique

Fictional characters

Monique, friend of Kim Possible
Monique, a cat villager from the video game series Animal Crossing
Monique Jeffries, character in American crime drama television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Monique Pollier, Orson Hodge's deceased mistress in Desperate Housewives