Fun Facts About the Name Montavious
- More than 1 thousand babies named Montavious: U.S. records list 1,002 babies given the name Montavious from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Montavious Mean?
Montavious is a modern American given name whose meaning is not fixed by tradition. It appears to be built from two parts. The opening Mon- or Monte- matches the element in names such as Monte and Monta and, more distantly, the Spanish and Italian word monte, "mountain," from Latin mons (genitive montis). The closing -avious is a suffix rather than a word: it echoes Latin-derived names such as Octavius, from octavus, "eighth," but in American names like Tavious and Marquavious it supplies sound and style rather than the sense "eighth." The usual gloss placed on the Monte element is therefore "mountain," while the full name has no single settled meaning. Spellings such as Montavius and Montavis reflect the same two-part construction.
Montavious Name History & Origins
The ending -avious belongs to a recognizable American naming style that also produced Dontavious, Marquavious, Tavious, and the older Octavious, an American respelling of the Roman name Octavius. Names of this type are especially common in the southern United States and in African American communities, where long, multisyllabic given names ending in -ious or -avious have been a familiar choice. Montavious sits alongside the closely related Montavius, Montavis, and Montravious, which share the same Mon- opening and the same closing suffix.
Its parts come from separate sources: a Romance word for "mountain" at the front and a Latin-derived name ending at the back, joined in an American context rather than inherited whole from an older language. The opening element should not be confused with the surname Montgomery, which comes from a Norman place name and has a different origin. Montavious is chiefly a name of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the United States.
How Popular is the Name Montavious?
Montavious has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2000. Its best rank was #2,085 in 1998.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,043 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #8,723 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #8,065 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #8,110 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #10,431 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #4,804 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #6,013 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #7,452 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2017 | #4,691 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2016 | #5,962 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #6,954 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #7,948 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2013 | #6,899 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2012 | #4,976 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2011 | #4,066 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2010 | #4,791 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2009 | #3,453 | 32 | 0.0016% |
| 2008 | #2,864 | 42 | 0.0021% |
| 2007 | #3,289 | 34 | 0.0016% |
| 2006 | #4,322 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2005 | #2,939 | 36 | 0.0018% |
| 2004 | #3,196 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2003 | #2,416 | 44 | 0.0022% |
| 2002 | #2,800 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2001 | #2,330 | 43 | 0.0022% |
| 2000 | #2,186 | 46 | 0.0023% |
| 1999 | #2,537 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 1998 | #2,085 | 45 | 0.0024% |
| 1997 | #2,957 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 1996 | #2,321 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 1995 | #2,384 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 1994 | #3,002 | 24 | 0.0012% |
| 1993 | #2,329 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 36 | 0.0018% |
| 1991 | #2,661 | 26 | 0.0013% |
| 1990 | #2,838 | 23 | 0.0011% |
| 1989 | #4,200 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 1988 | #3,305 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 1987 | #3,665 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1986 | #3,086 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1985 | #3,537 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1984 | #5,375 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1983 | #5,981 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #6,948 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1980 | #5,317 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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