Montaña

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Montaña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: mountain.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 4K
  • ARArgentina1 in 6.1K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 people, est.

Sources
235 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

mountain

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Montaña 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.

Where Montaña is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#636≈12,000 est.≈1 in 4K10Montaña89
AR Argentina#7897,4061 in 6.1K7.4KMontaña55
US United States—4,7441 in 70K6.8KMontaña235
VE Venezuela#650≈4,600 est.≈1 in 6.2K—Montaña23
ES Spain—2,5541 in 20K2.6KMontaña85
UY Uruguay#5021,3451 in 2.5K1.3KMontaña17

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Montaña is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written หนองนา, Nongna, มณทนะ, มลทณา, Hnongna

  • English surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Afrikaans

    Also written Montana, Mōntānã, Móntana, Montaná, Mōńtâńâ

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Montañá, Montañà, Montaňa, Montanà, Montana

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines

    Also written Möntänä, Mõntãnã, Montana, Môntänā

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain

    Also written Montana, Möntäñä, Montànà

  • Russian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Spain, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Монтана, Мантана, Montana, Montañà, Montañá

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Montaña is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, a neighbourhood of Noord, Aruba

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, highlands

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, ( Lcc ). Montaña. v. mendi. Kristoren kurutzearen / lenaengo lekua / Bizkaia izandu zara, / montaña santua. CancVizc 369. Ainbat montaña eta atx artean . Cap (ed. 1893) pról.. Goan zen Yudeako mendietara o montañara . FamInst 720. Olibetako montañatik zelietarat igaran zela . UskLiB 60. Nola kurritzen baitu / montaña eta sasi . Bordel 177. v. tbn. JanEd I 68.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

1700180019002000Pere Pau Muntanya, b. 1749Miquel Montaña i Carrera, b. 1931Raúl Moreno Montaña, b. 1978Sergi Samper, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Montaña
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—461#2,255
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—449#4,932

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Montaña mean, and where does it come from?
mountain Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Montaña have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Montaña in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montaña.
Where is Montaña most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Montaña is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.5 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Montaña?
In Argentina, the national register counted 7,406 people named Montaña, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
How common is Montaña compared with other names?
In Colombia, Montaña is the 636th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Montaña” — the 636th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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