Monte

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.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

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 word·kaikki.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 word·kaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Monte, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Burns
• Beaumont
• Edmond
• Aston
• Carlo

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Monte is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Angola

  Also written Monté, Montê

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain

  Also written Monté, Mont'E, Monte'

• French surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium

  Also written Monté, Montè, Môñťê

• Italian name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, San Marino

  Also written Montè, Gmund, Môñté, Monté

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Monté

• Malay name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia

  Also written Monté

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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 name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• habitational name from any of the places named with Monte or Monti.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• mountaineer

  as a name·Dicionario 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 name·Dicionário 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.

• Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monteb. 1549ITcardinal and patron of music and art in Rome
• Monte Blueb. 1887USAmerican actor (1887–1963)
• Tree Rollinsb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player-coach

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).

61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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

Which countries have the most people named Monte?

In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Monte, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monte. After it come Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and India; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Monte most common?

Monte is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.

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.