Monty
Monty was given to 112 boys in 2025, #1,543 among boys’ names; 15,629 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Monty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 49 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Monty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Monty mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Monty is “a diminutive of the male given names Montgomery and Montague.”
/ˈmɒnti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Monty?
#1,543 among boys’ names, 2025
Monty rose from #2,552 in 2015 to #1,543 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.6 to 65.6 per million.
551 babies in 1961, the peak
Monty peaked in 1961, when 551 babies were given it (539 boys, #340 among boys’ names). The 112 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,543 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 90 | #1,815 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 85 | #1,873 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,109 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,021 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,409 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,452 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,491 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,232 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,552 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,788 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,317 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,425 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,310 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,944 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 56 | #2,341 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,144 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,852 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,963 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,061 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,208 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,156 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,289 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,779 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,439 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,537 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,080 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 46 | #1,949 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,767 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,627 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 58 | #1,535 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 61 | #1,456 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,441 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 53 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 85 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 94 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 101 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 116 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 120 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 129 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 139 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 156 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 182 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 186 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 222 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 265 | #483 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 300 | #471 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 330 | #452 | 0.18 |
| 1969 | 296 | #451 | 0.17 |
| 1968 | 302 | #439 | 0.17 |
| 1967 | 325 | #422 | 0.19 |
| 1966 | 412 | #374 | 0.23 |
| 1965 | 419 | #380 | 0.23 |
| 1964 | 451 | #368 | 0.23 |
| 1963 | 459 | #369 | 0.23 |
| 1962 | 489 | #359 | 0.24 |
| 1961 | 539 | #340 | 0.25 |
| 1960 | 480 | #356 | 0.23 |
| 1959 | 496 | #350 | 0.23 |
| 1958 | 472 | #351 | 0.22 |
| 1957 | 465 | #349 | 0.22 |
| 1956 | 384 | #383 | 0.18 |
| 1955 | 353 | #382 | 0.17 |
| 1954 | 358 | #372 | 0.18 |
| 1953 | 295 | #404 | 0.15 |
| 1952 | 331 | #373 | 0.17 |
| 1951 | 321 | #378 | 0.17 |
| 1950 | 342 | #366 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 334 | #371 | 0.19 |
| 1948 | 216 | #454 | 0.12 |
| 1947 | 218 | #453 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 192 | #458 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 142 | #502 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 147 | #500 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 191 | #455 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 126 | #549 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 136 | #503 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 121 | #534 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 139 | #489 | 0.13 |
| 1938 | 100 | #588 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 94 | #598 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 79 | #666 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 53 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 67 | #750 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 48 | #902 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 46 | #975 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 52 | #897 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,168 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,054 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,190 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,122 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,554 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,967 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,700 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,205 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Monty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,629 Americans recorded as Monty, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 112 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 Monty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Monty, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 15,629 Americans ever recorded as Monty. The median Monty alive today is 61 years old; half are between 49 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 10,994 people named Monty (247 women and girls, 10,747 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,858 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 | 459 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,030 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 551 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 780 |
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 Monty born?
The states with the most babies named Monty are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,941 | #2,219 | 1.9× |
| California | 1,243 | #2,683 | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 756 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Indiana | 485 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 448 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 426 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kansas | 376 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Washington | 370 | #960 | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 350 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 325 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Monty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Monty is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 3.5 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 Monty 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, Monty is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 249 babies (45%), again the second 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 Monty
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 Monty and names like it
- Compare Monty and MonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMonty peaked in 1961.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Monty since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Monty.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Monty alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.