Mont
loc · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hill, from Catalan and Old French mont ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ (Latin mons, genitive montis)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mont is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 825K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 846K
- MUMauritius≈1 in 208K
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)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)
393 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hill, from Catalan and Old French mont ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ (Latin mons, genitive montis).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mont 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 | 393 | 1 in 846K | 741 | Mont | 258 |
| ES Spain | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 587K | 468 | — | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 788K | listed | Mont | 58 |
| FR France | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 45 | Mont | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 825K | — | Mont | 51 |
| FI Finland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 278K | 10 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 305K | — | Mont | 7 |
| MU Mauritius | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Mont | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 2 |
393 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Mont 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.
from a short form of a Germanic personal name ending in -mond (from mund ‘protection’; compare Raymond.)
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from Middle Dutch monde ‘mouth’, perhaps denoting someone with a large or loud one.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
kinship name from Middle Dutch mond ‘guardian’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, or near a hill, OF mo?it (L mons, gen. mantis). Vars.: Demont, Dumont. Vars.: Mondy; Mund(a)y. Dims.: Fr.: Montel, Monteau(x), Montet, Montillon. Mont(ic)elli, Montello, Montin(i). Sp.: Montejo, Montilla. Monelli see Simon Aug.: f'r.: Montat. It.: Edmond).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In French, mountain, mount, mont
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Christopher Montb. 1496DE16th-century English diplomat
- Hans Montb. 1543BEarchitect, sculptor, painter, draftsman
- Mont Follickb. 1887GBBritish politician and linguist (1887-1958)
- Frederick Montb. 1894ATAustrian art dealer, owner of Frederick Mont Inc in NY and Galerie Sanct Lucas in Vienna (1894-1994)
- Mont A. Cazierb. 1911USAmerican entomologist
- Claude Montb. 1913FRFrench politician
- Tommy Montb. 1922USAmerican football coach (1922-2012)
- Cristina Badosa i Montb. 1950ESSpanish literary historian
- Néstor Montb. 1967ESSpanish singer-songwriter
- Mia Montb. 1989PEPeruvian singer
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 741 | #33,142 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 688 | #31,738 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 624 | #35,945 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 468 | #8,459 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 468 | #8,449 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 42 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mont mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hill, from Catalan and Old French mont ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ (Latin mons, genitive montis). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mont have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 393 people named Mont, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mont.
- How common is the name Mont?
- In the United States, the national register counted 393 people named Mont in 2020, about 1 in 846 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montThe 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, “Mont”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.