Monte

Where Monte comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Monte.

  • Vowel-ended
Monte through the years
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #866 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Monte Blue born
    American actor
  3. 1893
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  4. 1952
    Peak, #293
    570 babies named Monte, its best rank.
  5. 1957
    Monte Melkonian born
    National Hero of Armenia
  6. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #494.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Monte Melkonian · National Hero of Armenia, 1957–1993
  • Monte Blue · American actor, 1887–1963
  • Monte Hellman · American film director, film producer and film editor, 1932–2021
  • Monte Markham · American actor, born 1935
  • Monte Cook · American writer and game designer, born 1968

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.