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The Monaca is very uncommon, it has a stock in the Milanese, in the Theatine, in the Foggia and in Sicily, La Monica, typically Sicilian, has probably a secondary stock in Campania, deriving from nicknames linked to the fact of being originally close to a monastery or to the its dependencies; a principle of this surname can be found in the Diplomatic Code of medieval Lombardy under the year 1178: "... Year ab incarnation of our domains Iesu Christi thousandth cent septuagesimo octavo, decimus kalendas madii, indecione elevec .... Interfuerunt Bernardus de la Monica , Carnelevarius de Burgo, Marabottus de Milano ... "and under the year 1191:" ... year dominice incarnacionis thousandth cent nonagesimo primo, index ninth, tercio die mensis decembris Iuraverunt Iohannes Desparius and Tebaldus archipresbiter et Aglerius Grossus et Ru | finus Marisanus and Hugo de Curte and Robertus de la Monaca and Petrus Senex ... ".
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