as a Last Name
- 129,436
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Montgomery
Meaning & Origins
English, Scottish, and northern Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Calvados, France, so named from Old French mont ‘hill’ + a Germanic personal name composed of the elements guma ‘man’ + rīc ‘power’. In Ireland this surname has been Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.
| 232nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 129,436
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Montgomery per capita
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