Montä
surname · Latin script
Montä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in early 20th century. From Latin mons (“mountain”).
- LVLatvia1 in 1K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- USUnited States1 in 376K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,866 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Monta in LV Latvia, US United States, TN Tunisia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)First recorded as a given name of Latvians in early 20th century. From Latin mons (“mountain”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Montä 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.
1,866 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Montä mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in early 20th century. From Latin mons (“mountain”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Montä have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Montä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monta.
- Where is Montä most common?
- Montä is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Montä?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,866 people named Montä, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mont%C3%A4The 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, “Montä”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.