Monte
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: mountain, mount
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Monte is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 21K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 28K
- MCMonaco≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Monte 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Monaco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Մոնթե in AM Armenia.
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)
Italian (Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna), Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who hved on or near a mountain, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese monte (Latin mans, genitive montis).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Monte is read(measured from records)
Monte 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.
- Spanish16%
mountain, mount
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Monte 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Monte | 12 |
| US United States | 16,045 | 1 in 21K | 15K | Monte | 393 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Monte | 97 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Monte | 84 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Monte | 59 |
| AM Armenia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 514 | Մոնթե | 19 |
| MC Monaco | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Monte | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. 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)
Monte 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.
Italian (Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna), Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who hved on or near a mountain, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese monte (Latin mans, genitive montis).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from any of the places named with Monte or Monti.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
mountaineer
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, do lat. mons, montis, monte/montanha; indica hab. das montanhas ou de localidades sobre um monte.
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)
- Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monteb. 1549ITcardinal and patron of music and art in Rome
- Monte Blueb. 1887USAmerican actor (1887–1963)
- Monte Hellmanb. 1932USAmerican film director, film producer and film editor (1932–2021)
- Monte Landisb. 1933USAmerican actor
- Monte Markhamb. 1935USAmerican actor
- Tree Rollinsb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player-coach
- Monte Melkonianb. 1957USNational Hero of Armenia (1957–1993)
- Marisa Monteb. 1967BRBrazilian actress
- Monte Cookb. 1968USAmerican writer and game designer
- Monté Morrisb. 1995USAmerican basketball player (born 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 61 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,824 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 548 | #1,824 |
| AM Armenia | Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names | 2025 | 456 | #10 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 121 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,319 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Monte come from?
- Italian (Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna), Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who hved on or near a mountain, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese monte (Latin mans, geniti… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Monte mean?
- In Spanish, mountain, mount
- In which country does Monte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Monte in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monte.
- How common is the name Monte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,045 people named Monte in 2020, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Monte?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monteThe 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, “Monte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.