Given name & surname
Monta
“mountain”
Monta is a feminine given name from Latin, meaning “mountain.” It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Monta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,399
- 492 boys · 907 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 24 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 884 as a first name in 2020; 299 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.
Monta’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Monta is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 紋太. In Greek usage, Monta is a transliteration of Μόντα.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Monta
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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