Montavis
Montavis was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Montavis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Montavis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,676, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1997, the peak
Montavis peaked in 1997, when 12 boys were given it, #5,165 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #13,676 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,077 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,749 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,293 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,026 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,364 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,926 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,944 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,425 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,147 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 12 | #5,165 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,830 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,240 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,449 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,069 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,978 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,920 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,171 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,084 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Montavis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Montavis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Montavis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Montavis, and how old are they?
An estimated 141 Americans named Montavis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 139 people named Montavis (0 women and girls, 139 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,513 babies since 1880, Montavis is the third most given (9.6% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montavious | 1,002 | 10 | 2000 |
| Montavius | 366 | under 5 | 1994 |
| Montavis | 145 | under 5 | 1997 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Montavis
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Montavis and names like it
- Compare Montavis and MontaviousBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMontavis peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Montavis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Montavis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.