Montana — #1057 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Montana

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,572 babies named Montana between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Montana currently holds the #1057 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 496 babies received it in a single year. Montana is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,923 additional births since 1942.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Montana performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 3,083 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Montana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 562 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Montana in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Montana 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 8,572 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.