Monte
Monte was given to 121 boys in 2025, #1,473 among boys’ names; 23,988 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,500 Americans named Monte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 42 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Monte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Monte?
#1,473 among boys’ names, 2025
Monte rose from #1,529 in 2015 to #1,473 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 56.3 to 70.8 per million.
634 babies in 1957, the peak
Monte peaked in 1957, when 634 babies were given it (617 boys, #305 among boys’ names). The 121 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,473 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 127 | #1,434 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,476 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 159 | #1,240 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,270 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,494 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 116 | #1,484 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 85 | #1,804 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 78 | #1,877 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,529 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (135)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,529 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 89 | #1,712 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,747 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 74 | #1,932 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,803 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 92 | #1,684 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 80 | #1,846 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 90 | #1,702 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,755 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 91 | #1,602 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,048 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 86 | #1,545 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 89 | #1,471 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 79 | #1,563 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,691 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,439 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,464 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,256 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,184 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,295 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,225 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,113 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,162 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 111 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 130 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 119 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 108 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 122 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 112 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 121 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 128 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 142 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 138 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 154 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 147 | #712 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 175 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 208 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 199 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 262 | #492 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 265 | #495 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 306 | #448 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 360 | #418 | 0.22 |
| 1971 | 438 | #383 | 0.25 |
| 1970 | 422 | #391 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 394 | #402 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 450 | #367 | 0.26 |
| 1967 | 417 | #367 | 0.24 |
| 1966 | 429 | #365 | 0.24 |
| 1965 | 476 | #349 | 0.26 |
| 1964 | 567 | #330 | 0.28 |
| 1963 | 592 | #324 | 0.29 |
| 1962 | 581 | #326 | 0.28 |
| 1961 | 563 | #331 | 0.27 |
| 1960 | 469 | #363 | 0.22 |
| 1959 | 475 | #359 | 0.22 |
| 1958 | 544 | #330 | 0.26 |
| 1957 | 617 | #305 | 0.29 |
| 1956 | 623 | #296 | 0.29 |
| 1955 | 540 | #316 | 0.26 |
| 1954 | 568 | #304 | 0.28 |
| 1953 | 540 | #307 | 0.27 |
| 1952 | 570 | #293 | 0.29 |
| 1951 | 475 | #318 | 0.25 |
| 1950 | 530 | #296 | 0.30 |
| 1949 | 440 | #327 | 0.25 |
| 1948 | 313 | #385 | 0.18 |
| 1947 | 312 | #389 | 0.17 |
| 1946 | 224 | #424 | 0.14 |
| 1945 | 139 | #508 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 157 | #484 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 171 | #473 | 0.12 |
| 1942 | 200 | #437 | 0.14 |
| 1941 | 207 | #408 | 0.17 |
| 1940 | 233 | #374 | 0.20 |
| 1939 | 224 | #380 | 0.20 |
| 1938 | 264 | #344 | 0.24 |
| 1937 | 192 | #409 | 0.18 |
| 1936 | 180 | #410 | 0.17 |
| 1935 | 164 | #446 | 0.16 |
| 1934 | 148 | #462 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 145 | #462 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 139 | #488 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 126 | #515 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 146 | #492 | 0.13 |
| 1929 | 102 | #600 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 96 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 102 | #626 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 80 | #715 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 96 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 53 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 44 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,294 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,427 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 14 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,768 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,620 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,181 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,166 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 9 | #899 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,362 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,339 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,104 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 12 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 14 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,199 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 11 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 6 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 6 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,062 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1881 | 5 | #967 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Monte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 23,988 Americans recorded as Monte, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 121 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Monte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Monte, and how old are they?
16,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 69% of the 23,988 Americans ever recorded as Monte. The median Monte alive today is 59 years old; half are between 42 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 16,045 people named Monte (548 women and girls, 15,497 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 710 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,670 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,470 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Monte born?
The states with the most babies named Monte are California, Texas and Illinois, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,351 | #793 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 1,804 | #1,858 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 890 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 839 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Indiana | 812 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 767 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 742 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Iowa | 709 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Kansas | 610 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Missouri | 597 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Monte is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Monte is most over-represented in Idaho: since 1910 it was given 4.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Monte with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,978 babies since 1880, Monte is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 249 babies (49%), again the most given.
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 Monte
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 Monte and names like it
- Compare Monte and MontyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMonte peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Monte since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Monte.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Monte alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.