How Many People Are Named Monte?
people named Monte are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 20,424 people in the US has this name
Based on 23,988 babies named Monte in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
634 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Either a diminutive of MONTGOMERY or from the Spanish or Italian vocabulary word meaning "mountain".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Monte in English. Counting Monte and these spellings together, about 28,175 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Monte, 2.8% were girls and 97.2% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Monte fell from 17.3% in the 1910s to 1.7% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Monte alive today is about 53 years old, and 48% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 42 and 68 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Monte first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1957, to 634 babies. In 2025, 121 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Monte has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #293, in 1952. In 2025 it ranked #1,473.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,473 |
| Best rank | #293 (1952) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #315 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Monte alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Monte were born in California than in any other state: about 1,759 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Monte was given 6.3 times as often in Idaho, 5.8 times in North Dakota and 5 times in South Dakota.
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