Monty

Where Monty comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Monty.

  • Vowel-ended
Monty through the years
  1. 1888
    Monty Woolley born
    American actor
  2. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,310 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1944
    Monty Alexander born
    Jamaican pianist
  4. 1961
    Peak, #339
    539 babies named Monty, the most in any year.
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #482.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Monty Woolley · American actor, 1888–1963
  • Monty Alexander · Jamaican pianist, born 1944
  • Monty Hall · Canadian radio and television show host, 1921–2017
  • Monty Norman · British composer, 1928–2022
  • Monty Banks · Italian comedian and director, 1897–1950

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.