Montgomery vs Monty
American parents have registered 15,629 Montys since 1880, against 6,248 Montgomerys. But in 2025 it was Montgomery that was commoner, 261 babies to 112.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Montgomery Monty
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 130 years in which either name was published, Monty for 74 years and Montgomery for 56 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
- 1880–1899 Montgomery ahead
- 1900 Monty ahead
- 1905–1911 Montgomery ahead
- 1912 Monty ahead
- 1913–1919 Montgomery ahead
- 1920–1921 Monty ahead
- 1922 Montgomery ahead
- 1923–1925 Monty ahead
- 1926 Montgomery ahead
- 1927–1993 Monty ahead
- 1994–2025 Montgomery ahead
Side by side
| Montgomery | Monty | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,248 | 15,629 |
| Most in one year | 261 | 551 |
| Babies in 2025 | 261 | 112 |
| Estimated living today | 5,400 | 11,000 |
| Median age today | 16 | 60 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1961 |
| Best rank | 960th boys | 339th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 960th | 1,539th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1900 |
| Girls / boys | 547 / 5,701 | 279 / 15,350 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Montys alive today are over 60; half the Montgomerys are over 16. That is 44 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Montgomery California (2.3×), Texas (1.7×), Ohio (1.5×)
- Monty Oklahoma (5.0×), Montana (3.4×), Kansas (3.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Montgomery | Monty |
|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 2,055 | 3,049 |
| Scotland | 40 | 24 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Montgomery and Monty.