Monty
Masculine · “Gomeric's hill”
Monty is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 15,350 boys against 279 girls since 1880.
Monty is Montgomery shortened, and the Norman place name behind it means Gomeric's hill — a personal name joined to the French word for mountain.
How old is the name Monty?
Monty first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Monty alive today was born around 1962, making them about 63 years old. About 11,500 people named Monty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Monty most popular?
Monty peaked in 1961, reaching #339 nationally. Today it ranks #1539, 1,200 places below that high. See the whole 1961 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mont Gumaric to Monty
The story of Monty
Roger de Montgomerie came to England with the Conqueror and the surname became prominent in England, Scotland and Wales; Montgomeryshire is named for the family. Montgomery entered American given-name use in the nineteenth century, and its clipping Monty was registered outright, peaking around 1926.
Meaning
Gomeric's hill
Through Montgomery, from the Old French mont, 'hill' or 'mountain', and the Germanic personal name Gumaric — guma, 'man', and ric, 'power'. Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy preserves it. The construction is a standard Norman place-name type and the reading is undisputed.
How the name formed
- mont Gumaric
- Montgomery
- Monty
Related forms: Montie · Montgomery · Montgommery
Pronouncing Monty
MON-tee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Monty and Montie are said identically.
Nicknames for Monty
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
- 1900
- Most boys named
- 1962489 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #339reached in 1961
- Change vs 2023
- +31.8%112 in 2025, from 85
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.
Monty in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Montie in English — spelling variant
- Montgomery in English — related form
- Montgommery in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Utah.
Montys among us
people named Monty are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 15,251 born in 2025 was named Monty
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sydney test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Monty's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sydney climbed just as high around 1913, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sydney's path sketches the road Monty is walking now.
Monty is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Monty is headed
Monty looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 26% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Monty beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Monty in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Montgomery is available as a full formal version with real Norman history.
- The hill meaning is concrete and the construction is well documented.
- It is warm and immediately friendly.
- As a diminutive on the certificate it carries an informal register into adult life.
- A British comedy troupe carries the name for many people.
- It is strongly period-coded to the early twentieth century.
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Masculine · #1539 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Montys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,500 people named Monty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Monty in 2025?
- Monty ranks #1539 among US boy names in 2025, with 112 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Monty?
- About 1 in every 15,251 US boys born in 2025 was named Monty — 112 in all.
- Will my child share the name Monty with classmates?
- Monty will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Monty
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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