Montagnier
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɔ̃taɲe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Montagnier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- SESweden1 in 48Kas Montan
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Montagnier itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4M (inferred from the name graph)
578 named Montagne, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Montagne in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montagnier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 578as Montagne | 1 in 576K | 711 | Montagne | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 379as Montan | 1 in 559K | 379 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 211as Montan | 1 in 48K | 211 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 164as Montagne | 1 in 105K | 164 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 86as Montagne | 1 in 136K | 86 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 39as Montagne | 1 in 87K | 39 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 37as Montagne | 1 in 138K | 37 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
578 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luc Montagnierb. 1932FRFrench virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
- Jean-Paul Montagnierb. 1965FRFrench musicologist
- André-Luc Montagnierb. 1982FRFrench politician
- Francine MontagnierFRchild of Luc Montagnier
- Anne-Marie MontagnierFRchild of Luc Montagnier
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #276,860 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #165,871 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #183,919 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Montagnier?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔ̃taɲe/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Montagnier have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 578 people named Montagne, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Montagnier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Montagnier is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.4 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Montagnier?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Montagnier in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Montagnier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montagnierThe 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, “Montagnier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.