Montgomery
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Montgomery, Normandy (‘hill of Garnery’, a Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘man-power’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Montgomery is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.4K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.7K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 555 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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 from Montgomery, Normandy (‘hill of Garnery’, a Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘man-power’).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montgomery 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 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Montgomery | 13 |
| US United States | 115,953 | 1 in 2.9K | 116K | Montgomery | 555 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Montgomery | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 4 | Montgomery | 246 |
| CA Canada | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 3 | Montgomery | 217 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Montgomery 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.
habitational name from a place in Calvados, France, so named from Old French mont ‘hill’ -t- a Germanic personal name composed of the elements guma ‘man’ -i- ric ‘power’. In Ireland this surname has been Gaelicized as Mac lomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, habitation name from a place in Calvados, so called from OF mont hill (see Mont) + a Gmc personal name com¬ posed of the elements giima man + ric power. Vars.: Montgomerie, Montgomry.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Alamein, British Soldier; US pi.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Sir Bernard Law, 1st Viscount of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, name; borough, Wales
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Lucy Maud Montgomeryb. 1874CACanadian writer (1874–1942)
- Bernard Montgomeryb. 1887GBBritish Army officer (1887–1976)
- Joseph Needhamb. 1900GBnot in their usual nameBritish biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900–1995)
- Robert Montgomeryb. 1904USAmerican actor (1904-1981)
- Montgomery Cliftb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920–1966)
- Elizabeth Montgomeryb. 1933USAmerican actress (1933–1995)
- Thomas Newmanb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer and conductor (born 1955)
- Pete Buttigiegb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1982)
- Janet Montgomeryb. 1985GBBritish actress
- Dacre Montgomeryb. 1994AUAustralian actor (born 1994)
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 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116K | #263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112K | #246 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 111K | #275 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Montgomery mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Montgomery, Normandy (‘hill of Garnery’, a Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘man-power’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Montgomery?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115,953 people named Montgomery in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- In which country does Montgomery have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 404 thousand people named Montgomery in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montgomery.
- Where is Montgomery most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Montgomery is densest in the United States — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montgomeryThe 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, “Montgomery”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.