Meaning & History
Short form of given names that contain mon. In Dutch, Flemish and Limburgish, where the name is strictly masculine, that will often be Edmond and Simon 1. In Spanish, it will often be Montserrat (feminine) and Ramón (masculine).In Dutch literature, the farmhand Mon Verkindere is one of the characters from the novel De Metsiers (1950) written by the Flemish author Hugo Claus (1929-2008).