Monty
given name · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from either of two places called Monty, from Late Latin montile ‘hill’: in Cameux, Liege province or in Corroy-leChateau, Namur province
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈmɒnti/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Monty is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 11K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 19Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 20Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 406 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
10,994 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from either of two places called Monty, from Late Latin montile ‘hill’: in Cameux, Liege province or in Corroy-leChateau, Namur province.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Monty, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Monty counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,994 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Monty | 406 |
| IN India | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Monty | 72 |
| SD Sudan | #929 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Monty | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 4 | Monty | 106 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 7 | Monty | 132 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Monty | 16 |
| NZ New Zealand | #932 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 38 | Monty | 43 |
| GY Guyana | — | 71 | 1 in 11K | 71 | — | 3 |
10,994 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Monty is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name for a mountain dweller, from Old French mont ‘mountain’ (Latin mons, montis).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A diminutive of the male given names Montgomery and Montague.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de Le Monty, le nom d’une localité dans l’Aveyron (Midi-Pyrénées).
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In German, männl. Vom., Kurzform der auch als
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Monty Woolleyb. 1888USAmerican actor (1888–1963)
- Monty Banksb. 1897ITItalian comedian and director (1897–1950)
- Monty Hallb. 1921CACanadian radio and television show host (1921-2017)
- Monty Normanb. 1928GBBritish composer (1928–2022)
- Monty Alexanderb. 1944USJamaican pianist (born 1944)
- Monty Donb. 1955GBBritish writer, broadcaster, gardener and farmer
- Billy Gunnb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and former professional bull rider
- Monty Sharmab. 1970INIndian composer (1970-)
- Monty Williamsb. 1971USAmerican basketball coach
- Monty Oumb. 1981USAmerican animator
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Monty a male or female name?
- Monty is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Monty mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from either of two places called Monty, from Late Latin montile ‘hill’: in Cameux, Liege province or in Corroy-leChateau, Namur province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Monty?
- In English /ˈmɒnti/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Monty have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Monty, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monty.
- Where is Monty most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Monty is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Monty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,994 people named Monty in 2020, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Monty compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Monty is the 929th most common given name of 4,989 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Monty” — the 929th most common given name in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.