Montoya — unisex name

What the Data Says About Montoya

The Social Security Administration has registered 520 babies named Montoya between 1962 and 2004, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Montoya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Montoya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 119 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Montoya performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 227 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Montoya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Montoya in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Montoya 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 520 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.