Montez — #2795 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Montez

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,183 babies named Montez between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Montez currently holds the #2795 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 110 babies received it in a single year. Montez is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 737 additional births since 1907.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Montez performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 854 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Montez shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 216 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Montez in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Montez 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 3,183 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.