Montóya
surname · Latin script
Montóya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Colombia it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Montoya and Basque Montoya.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 308(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 441
- COColombia≈1 in 482
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #810 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
- 1 in 308 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Montoya in US United States, CO Colombia, PE Peru and 6 more.
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)
From Spanish Montoya and Basque Montoya.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montóya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Montoya | 12 |
| CO Colombia | #42 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 482 | 76 | Montoya | 191 |
| US United States | — | 71,844 | 1 in 4.6K | 72K | Montoya | 432 |
| ES Spain | #187 | 28,278 | 1 in 1.8K | 28K | Montoya | 176 |
| PE Peru | #171 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Montoya | 113 |
| HN Honduras | #50 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 441 | — | Montoya | 64 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 17,844 | 1 in 947 | 18K | Montoya | 52 |
| CR Costa Rica | #81 | 16,528 | 1 in 308 | 17K | Montoya | 93 |
| SV El Salvador | #155 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 935 | — | Montoya | 61 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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 Montóya mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Montoya and Basque Montoya. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Montóya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 108 thousand people named Montóya in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montoya.
- Where is Montóya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Montóya is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 308 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Montóya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 71,844 people named Montóya in 2010, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Montóya compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Montóya is the 42nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Montóya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mont%C3%B3yaThe 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, “Montóya” — the 42nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.