Montańo
surname · Latin script
Montańo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Romance; from Italian Montano and Spanish Montaño.
- RERéunion≈1 in 110few records(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 320
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 109 (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Montano in US United States, MX Mexico, SV El Salvador and 1 more and Montaño in CO Colombia, BO Bolivia, EC Ecuador and 1 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 Romance; from Italian Montano and Spanish Montaño.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Montańo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #19 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 322 | — | Montaño | 47 |
| CO Colombia | #317 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 11 | Montaño | 107 |
| US United States | — | 27,276 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Montano | 346 |
| EC Ecuador | #289 | 15,198 | 1 in 1.1K | 15K | Montaño | 33 |
| MX Mexico | #572 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 791 | Montano | 156 |
| RE Réunion | #39 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 109 | — | Montano | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | #186 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Montano | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | #337 | 2,473 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.5K | Montaño | 35 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Montańo mean, and where does it come from?
- From Romance; from Italian Montano and Spanish Montaño. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Montańo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Montańo in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montaño.
- How common is the name Montańo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,276 people named Montańo in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Montańo compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Montańo is the 19th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monta%C5%84oThe 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, “Montańo” — the 19th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.