Monte
Feminine · “Mountain”
Monte is given to both — 828 girls and 23,160 boys since 1880. See Monte as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Monte is the Romance word for a mountain, and the most famous place carrying it is not a mountain at all but a plateau named after the prince who put a casino on it.
How old is the name Monte?
Monte first appears in US birth records in 1891 — 134 years ago. The typical Monte alive today was born around 1948, making them about 77 years old. About 500 people named Monte are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Monte most popular?
Monte peaked in 1892, reaching #1171 nationally. See the whole 1892 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Monte
The principality was nearly bankrupt, and the prince opened a gaming house to save it — the quarter built around the casino was named Mount Charles after him, in Italian, and it worked well enough that income tax was abolished for residents and never reinstated. Within a generation the name meant gambling everywhere in Europe, and it has since been borrowed for a method in mathematics: a Monte Carlo simulation solves a problem by running it thousands of times with random inputs, and it is named after the casino because the technique is, quite literally, repeated gambling.
Meaningscholars disagree
Mountain
In Italian and Spanish the word means a mountain or a hill. In American use the name may also be a clipping of Montgomery or Montague, or an independent build, and the record does not distinguish.
Pronouncing Monte
MON-tee
Two syllables, stress at the front. Italian and Spanish say it the same way.
Nicknames for Monte
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1891
- Most girls named
- 193120 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1171reached in 1892
- Change vs 1994
- +80.0%9 in 2024, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Monte in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Monte in Italian — same name
- Monte in Spanish — same name
Montes among us
people named Monte are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Monte sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short, cheerful and read correctly on sight.
- The word behind it is concrete and shared by two languages.
- It works as a full name or as a short form of a longer one.
- Monty is the commoner spelling and his will be written that way.
- It reads as a nickname, so a long form will be assumed.
- The spelling is recorded for both sexes, though nearly every bearer in the record is a boy.
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- How many Montes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Monte are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Monte in 2025?
- Monte is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Monte with classmates?
- Monte will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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