Montgomery

(male) Transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name from various places in Calvados. The place name is derived from Old French mont ‘hill’ + the Germanic personal name Gomeric ‘power of man’. It has never been common as a given name, although it was given additional currency by the American actor Montgomery Clift (1920–66), and during and after the Second World War by the British field marshal, Bernard Montgomery (1887–1976).