Mount
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives on or near a hill; from Middle English mount ‘hill’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mount is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- NZNew Zealand
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 364 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Person who lives on or near a hill; from Middle English mount ‘hill’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mount counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8.8K | Mount | 364 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Mount | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Mount | 158 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Mount | 97 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | Mount | 29 |
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. 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)
Mount is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller by the mount, hill; first attested Richard del Mount 1301 SRY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hill. Middle English mount (from Old English munt, reinforced by Old French mont).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, probably a habitational name from places so called in Peeblesshire, Fife, and Lanarkshire.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A hill or mountain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, de, héi. I ha sO mahti, He mounts a horse
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
- William Sidney Mountb. 1807USAmerican painter (1807-1868)
- Charlotte Mount Brock Morrell Schreiberb. 1834CACanadian artist (1834-1922)
- James Mountb. 1843USAmerican politician (1843–1901)
- Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronetb. 1904GBBritish Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire and grandfather to David Cameron (1904-1993)
- Rick Mountb. 1947USAmerican basketball player
- Thom Mountb. 1948USMajor independent film producer.
- Anson Mountb. 1973USAmerican actor
- Erin Houchinb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1976)
- Ben Mountb. 1977GBBritish rapper
- Mason Mountb. 1999GBEnglish association football player
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 18 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.8K | #4,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.6K | #3,780 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,161 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
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
- What does the name Mount mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives on or near a hill; from Middle English mount ‘hill’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Mount have the most bearers?
- Mount is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled mount.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mountThe 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, “Mount”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.