Monty

What Monty means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Monty yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #269 vs #1,539 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Monty?

US: Rising: up from #2528 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #305 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1961, when 539 boys got the name (#339 that year). First in the US records in 1900.

How common

• About 1 in 15,251 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,609 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.31 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.21 per 1,000 boys), WA (0.18 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Monty is #1539 in the US and #269 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Monty were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mendy52 US · 3 E&W
• Montae6 US
• Monti5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Monty

Boys

• Arthur#87possibly “bear”^*
• Wesley#52“west + wood, clearing”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Malcolm#272Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Colter#157Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #157 vs #1,466 in 2025

For a sister

• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Sylvia#300“forest”^*
• Blair#169“field, plain”^*
• Scottie#126Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,533 in 2015, #126 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Monty’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.