Montana

Where Montana comes from

From Latin montāna * the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”) * the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname
— Wiktionary's entry for Montana
  • place
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,398 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1993
    Montana Cox born
    fashion model
  4. 1998
    Peak, #510
    496 babies named Montana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2003
    Montana Jordan born
    American actor
  6. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #993.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the place name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.
Namesakes
  • Montana Jordan · American actor, born 2003
  • Montana Cox · fashion model, born 1993
  • Montana de la Rosa · American mixed martial arts fighter, born 1995
  • Montana Taylor · American musician, 1903–1954
  • Montana Fishburne · American pornographic actress, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.