Montaňa
surname · Latin script
Montaňa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin montāna * the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”) * the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname.
- 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)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Montaña in AR Argentina, VE Venezuela, CO Colombia and 3 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)
- Latinmontāna(measured from records)
- Spanishmontaña“mountain”(measured from records)
- Spanish Montañatopographic(measured from records)
From Latin montāna * the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”) * the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname
Sources 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montaňa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #636 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 10 | Montaña | 89 |
| AR Argentina | #789 | 7,406 | 1 in 6.1K | 7.4K | Montaña | 55 |
| US United States | — | 4,744 | 1 in 70K | 6.8K | Montaña | 235 |
| VE Venezuela | #650 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Montaña | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,554 | 1 in 20K | 2.6K | Montaña | 85 |
| UY Uruguay | #502 | 1,345 | 1 in 2.5K | 1.3K | Montaña | 17 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Montaňa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin montāna * the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”) * the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Montaňa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Montaňa in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montaña.
- Where is Montaňa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Montaňa 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 Montaňa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 7,406 people named Montaňa, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Montaňa compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Montaňa 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, “Montaňa” — the 636th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.