Montgomery
Montgomery was the 962nd most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 241 babies. Its best year was 1883, when it ranked 778th; the most babies were born in 2025 (241). Over the last ten years it has moved up 602 places. More babies were named Montgomery in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Meaning Gomeric's hill · French, Germanic
Say it mont-GUM-uh-ree /mɑntˈɡʌməri/
- Rank in 2025
- #962 boys, up 132 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 241boys
- Girls and boys
- 12% girls, 88% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 2025241 babies
- Total since 1880
- 6,248babies recorded
What does the name Montgomery mean?
Montgomery is a Norman surname from a place in Normandy meaning 'hill of Gomeric'. The first part is Old French mont 'hill', and Gomeric (Gumaric) is a Germanic personal name made of words meaning 'man' and 'ruler'. Harrison's surname dictionary (1918) gives the same reading, and Wikipedia names the Norman villages Saint-Germain- and Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery. The British field marshal Bernard Montgomery is a well-known bearer, and Monty is the usual short form.
mont (Old French, “hill”)*gumô (Proto-Germanic, “man”)*rīks (Proto-Germanic, “ruler”)
How sure is this? Probable.
Related names: Monty, Montague.
See also: French names, names that mean meadow, hill or valley, names from places.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'Montgomery', Wiktionary (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Henry Harrison, Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary, vol. 2 (1918), s.v. 'MONTGOMERY', Morland Press (public domain; Internet Archive scan)
- Wikipedia, 'Montgomery (name)', Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)
- CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict), Carnegie Mellon University
Nicknames for Montgomery
The usual nicknames for Montgomery are Monty. Some parents skip the long form: for every 100 boys named Montgomery in the last five years, 40 were named Monty, against 38 twenty years earlier.
| Nickname | Kind | Rank 2025 | Boys, 5 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monty · also for Lamont, Monte | Traditional | #1,543 | 432 |
Nicknames reviewed by our editors; counts are boys given the nickname as their legal first name. Nobody records how many Montgomerys go by each one.
Montgomery popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #6,050 | #962 | 20 | 241 |
| 2020 | #3,585 | #1,094 | 42 | 182 |
| 2010 | #8,588 | #1,983 | 14 | 70 |
| 2000 | #7,895 | #1,549 | 13 | 78 |
| 1990 | — | #2,067 | — | 36 |
| 1980 | — | #2,501 | — | 20 |
| 1970 | — | #1,127 | — | 54 |
| 1960 | — | #992 | — | 60 |
| 1950 | — | #1,069 | — | 44 |
| 1940 | — | #2,271 | — | 11 |
| 1930 | — | #2,259 | — | 13 |
| 1920 | — | #2,192 | — | 15 |
| 1910 | — | #1,382 | — | 7 |
| 1900 | — | — | — | — |
| 1890 | — | — | — | — |
| 1880 | — | #1,015 | — | 5 |
How popular is Montgomery, counting every spelling?
Montgomery has no other common spelling that sounds the same. Counting every name's spellings together, it ranks #928 for boys in 2025, against #962 on the official list.
How many kids will share the name Montgomery?
241 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Montgomery (0.07 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Montgomery born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 35 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Montgomery.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Montgomery?
About 4,900 people born in the US named Montgomery are alive today, with a median age of 18; half are between 6 and 41. That makes Montgomery mostly worn by children and young adults. The wide spread shows a name popular in two different eras.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Montgomery by state
How common Montgomery was among boys born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Wisconsin (2.5×), Missouri (2.3×), Tennessee (1.9×), Ohio (1.6×), North Carolina (1.6×). In 22 states fewer than five boys a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Montgomery: their share of US boys followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Montgomery, they share its era and feel.
Middle names for Montgomery · Sibling names for Montgomery
Questions about the name Montgomery
What does Montgomery mean?
Montgomery means “Gomeric's hill” (French, Germanic origin). Certainty: probable.
How popular is the name Montgomery?
Montgomery was the 962nd most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 241 babies. Its best year was 1883, when it ranked 778th; the most babies were born in 2025 (241). Over the last ten years it has moved up 602 places. More babies were named Montgomery in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Is Montgomery a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 12% girls, 88% boys given the name Montgomery in the US.
Where is Montgomery most popular?
In 2021–2025, Montgomery was most common in Wisconsin (0.31 per 1,000 boys), followed by Missouri and Tennessee.