Montano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from the Romance languages, Italian, or Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/montano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Montano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 19th most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 436(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.1K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57 (inferred from the name graph)
27,276 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
topographic name from Italian montano ‘mountain’, or a habitational name from a place called Montano, in particular Montano Antilia in Salerno province, or the district of Caianello in Caserta so named.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Montano is read(measured from records)
Montano is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish48%
Latín Montanus, cognomen romano: 'montañés, de monte'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English39%
A surname from the Romance languages, Italian, or Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montano 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 | — | 27,276 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Montano | 346 |
| BO Bolivia | #19 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 436 | — | Montaño | 47 |
| CO Colombia | #317 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 11 | Montaño | 107 |
| EC Ecuador | #289 | 15,198 | 1 in 1.1K | 15K | Montaño | 33 |
| RE Réunion | #39 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | — | Montano | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | #186 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Montano | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | #337 | 2,473 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.5K | Montaño | 35 |
27,276 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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Montano is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name from Italian montano ‘mountain’, or a habitational name from a place called Montano, in particular Montano Antilia in Salerno province, or the district of Caianello in Caserta so named.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname or topographic name from the adjective montano ‘from the mountains’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the personal name Montano, from Latin rnontanus ‘mountain dweller’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, do lat. montanus, montanhês; pode indicar residente nos montes ou hab. de localidades assim chamadas.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Benito Arias Montanob. 1527ESSpanish orientalist, editor and polymath (1527–1598)
- Aldo Montanob. 1910ITfencer (1910–1996)
- Mario Aldo Montanob. 1948ITItalian fencer
- Carlo Montanob. 1952ITItalian fencer
- Tommaso Montanob. 1953ITItalian fencer
- Val Valentinob. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican magician
- Robert Montanob. 1960USAmerican actor
- Sumalee Montanob. 1972USAmerican actress
- Machel Montanob. 1974TTTrinidadian musician
- Aldo Montanob. 1978ITItalian fencer and Olympic medalist
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 38 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Montano come from?
- topographic name from Italian montano ‘mountain’, or a habitational name from a place called Montano, in particular Montano Antilia in Salerno province, or the district of Caianello in Caserta so name… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Montano?
- A machine transcription gives /montano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Montano mean?
- In English, A surname from the Romance languages, Italian, or Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain.
- What are other forms of the name Montano?
- In the etymology graph, Montagna and Montanino are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Montano have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Montano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montano.
- How common is the name Montano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,276 people named Montano in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Montano compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Montano is the 19th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Montano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montanoThe 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, “Montano” — the 19th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.