Given name & surname · also Spanish
Montoya
Montoya is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Basque. It is used in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Montoya comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Basque.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Montoya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 639
- 119 boys · 520 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 36 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 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 596 as a first name in 2020; 70,671 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.
Montoya’s family of names
Montoya may belong to the same name family as MONTOYYA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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