Montana
The girl's name Montana has been in the national records since 1910, with 12,855 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,033rd. About 12,000 Montanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Montana boys named Montana
Girls and boys called Montana
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Montana crossed from boys to girls in 1986, and has stayed there for 40 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 82% girls, and in 2025 it was 68%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 44 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,855
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 510th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,033rd
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 8,815 / 4,040
How old the living Montanas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,855 babies given the name since 1910, about 12,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 3,900 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
From Latin montāna.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Montanas
- Montana Jordan (born 2003)American actor
People named Montana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Montana is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Montana is most concentrated in Montana (3.4×), Oklahoma (3.1×), Missouri (1.9×), Tennessee (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular girls’ names the year Montana peaked:
Montana elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Montana | 492 | 717th |
| France girls | Montana | 30 | 5,513th |
| England and Wales boys | Montana | 28 | 3,079th |
| Ireland girls | Montana | 21 | 752nd |
| Scotland girls | Montana | 9 | 629th |
| France boys | Montana | 5 | 4,363rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Montana among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Montana | — | 6 |
| Finland boys | Montana | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Montana lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 449 women called Montaña were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Montaña | 246 | 1.255 | 168 |
| Cádiz | Montaña | 57 | 0.089 | 653 |
| Badajoz | Montaña | 16 | 0.047 | 906 |
| Salamanca | Montaña | 7 | 0.041 | 1,132 |
| Sevilla | Montaña | 37 | 0.037 | 1,048 |
| Córdoba | Montaña | 11 | 0.028 | 1,117 |
Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Montana against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.