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Montgomery Name Meaning, Origins & History

Montgomery

Pronunciation: muhnt-GUM-uh-ree

Meaning From the rich man's mountain Origin surnames Gender Boy
BOYS RANK
#962
TREND
128
GIRLS RANK
#6,050
TREND
21
Peak Years
2025, 2023, 2021
Lowest Years
1880, 1881, 1887
Energy Archetype
Hardworking & Dutiful

Rank shows the name’s position among U.S. baby names for each gender in 2025. Trend shows how many places it rose or fell since 2024. Rank 1 is the most popular. Based on U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) data. Peak and lowest years are based on the number of boys named Montgomery in the available records.

Fun Facts About the Name Montgomery

  • More than 6 thousand babies named Montgomery: U.S. records list 6,247 babies given the name Montgomery from 1880 through 2025. Even 547 girls received the name Montgomery - about 1 girl for every 10 boys.

What Does the Name Montgomery Mean?

Montgomery is an English given name and surname derived from a Norman French place name. It means "Gomeric's hill" or "hill of Gomeric." The place name combines Old French mont ("hill, mount") with the Germanic personal name Gomeric (also found as Gumaric). That personal name is usually analyzed as guma ("man") plus ric ("power, ruler").

The literal sense is "Gomeric's hill," a hill associated with a man named Gomeric. Because the personal name's parts mean "man" and "power," the place name is sometimes interpreted more loosely as "hill of the powerful man." The origin is Norman French, while the personal name element is Germanic; the name itself is used mainly in English-speaking countries.

Montgomery Name History & Origins

The name comes from Montgommery, a place in Normandy in present-day Calvados, France. Medieval Latin records render the place name as Mons Gomerici. It was the seat of a Norman family whose best-known early member was Roger de Montgomery, a companion of William the Conqueror. After the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Roger was granted extensive lands and became Earl of Shrewsbury. The surname spread to England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Montgomery entered given-name use later, following the English habit of using surnames as first names. It appears as a first name in Britain and Ireland and is also used in the United States, where it is often drawn from a family surname. The Montgomery place name in Wales also derives from the Norman family rather than from an independent Welsh source.

How Popular is the Name Montgomery?

Montgomery recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2025. Its best rank was #778 in 1883.

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.

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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How the Name Montgomery Shapes Your Personality and Life?

You have psychic power. You can carry on for others with joy. You have a receptive nature and may bear burdens for others. You are pragmatic, thorough, strong-willed, practical and stubborn at times. You are hard working, often martyr to duty. You like home and security above all. You are frank, methodical and believe in law, system and order.

You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.

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