Monts

loc · Latin script

Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains, from Catalan monts (Latin montes), plural of mont ‘mountain’ (see Mont)

Monts is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
68 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: 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:

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)

topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains, from Catalan monts (Latin montes), plural of mont ‘mountain’ (see Mont).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Monts counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Monts is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1.1K—68
LV Latvia—2——
IN India—1——
GB United Kingdom—listed—3

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; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the welsh-surnames-morgan-1985 register. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Monts is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada

    Also written Mont'S

37 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Monts is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Ēģiptiešu mitoloģijā - kara dievs, pie kura griezās, lai faraonam nodrošinātu uzvaru pār ienaidnieku

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Monts
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,240
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,589
GB United KingdomWelsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Monts mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains, from Catalan monts (Latin montes), plural of mont ‘mountain’ (see Mont). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Monts have the most bearers?
Monts is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Monts”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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