Montpellier
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Montpellier (a large city, the prefecture of Hérault department, Occitania, France)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Montpellier is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- SNSenegal
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Montpelier in US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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)
Montpellier (a large city, the prefecture of Hérault department, Occitania, France)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montpellier 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 27 | Montpellier | 130 |
| US United States | — | 125 | Montpelier | 70 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Montpellier | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Montpelier | 10 |
| SN Senegal | — | — | Montpellier | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Montpellier is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, de Montpellier, nom d’une localité dans l’Hérault (Languedoc-Roussillon)
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In English, city, France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A large city, the prefecture of Hérault department, Occitania, France.
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)
- Théodore Alexis Joseph de Montpellierb. 1807BEBelgian clergyman, Bishop of Liège (1807–1879)
- J. Montpellierb. 1886FRFrench mycologist, and microbiologist
- Constant Montpellierb. 1961CACanadian jockey
- Luc MontpellierCanadian cinematographer
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 17 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Montpellier mean, and where does it come from?
- Montpellier (a large city, the prefecture of Hérault department, Occitania, France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Montpellier have the most bearers?
- Montpellier is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled montpellier.
What do you want to know about Montpellier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montpellierThe 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, “Montpellier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.