Given name & surname
Mont
Mont is a surname from French, ultimately from Catalan. It is used in English and Catalan.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mont is a diminutive of Montserrat. An origin associated with Montserrat is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Catalan usage, Mont is a diminutive of Montserrat.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mont through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 884
- 884 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1977. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 393 as a first name in 2020; 741 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mont’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Mont is a diminutive of Montserrat. In Walloon usage, Mont has a conventional equivalent in the English form MONS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mont
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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