Montie
Masculine · “from Gomeric's hill”
Montie is given to both — 1,695 boys and 935 girls since 1880. See Montie as a girl nameSee other names given to both
There is a town in Wales named after a family from a village in Normandy. Roger de Montgomerie came over with the Conquest, was given the Welsh march to hold, and the castle and county that grew there carried his family's Norman village across the sea and into the map of another country entirely.
How old is the name Montie?
Montie first appears in US birth records in 1886 — 139 years ago. The typical Montie alive today was born around 1949, making them about 76 years old. About 900 people named Montie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Montie most popular?
Montie peaked in 1895, reaching #795 nationally. See the whole 1895 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Montgomery to Montie
The story of Montie
This is a short form that has outlived every long name behind it. Montgomery, Montague, Lamont and Monteith all fed it; none of them is much given now, and the clipped form kept going after its parents stopped. That is the usual shape of a nickname's life — it arrives attached to something, becomes independent, and then survives the thing it came from, so that a child carrying it has a name whose ancestry is invisible even to the people who chose it. The Welsh, incidentally, never used the Norman name for the town: their name for it honors a different man altogether.
Meaningscholars disagree
from Gomeric's hill
The Norman place name is generally read as a hill belonging to a man with a Germanic name. The first element is secure; the second is a personal name whose form is argued over.
How the name formed
- Montgomery
- Monty
- Montie
Pronouncing Montie
MON-tee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The two endings are said identically, so the difference is one of register on the page.
Nicknames for Montie
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
- 1886
- Most boys named
- 193946 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #795reached in 1895
- Change vs 2004
- +100.0%10 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.
Monties among us
people named Montie 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
Montie 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, friendly and completely easy on first hearing.
- It works across the sexes without straining for it.
- The long names behind it are all still available as formal versions.
- Monty is the commoner spelling and this gets corrected.
- It leans to boys, but a real share of children with this spelling are girls, so forms will sometimes guess wrong.
- It reads as a nickname rather than a full name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Monties are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Montie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Montie in 2025?
- Montie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Montie with classmates?
- Montie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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