Monta — unisex name

What the Data Says About Monta

The Social Security Administration has registered 907 babies named Monta between 1891 and 1994, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Monta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1952, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Monta is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 492 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Monta performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 169 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Monta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Monta in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Monta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 907 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.