Montez
Montez is a boy's name that peaked in 1991, when it was the 1,030th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,707th. About 3,300 Montezes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Montez boys named Montez
Girls and boys called Montez
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Montez crossed from girls to boys in 1968, and has stayed there for 57 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 59 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
- 3,942
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 1,030th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,707th
- First recorded
- 1907
- Girls / boys
- 737 / 3,205
How old the living Montezes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,942 babies given the name since 1907, about 3,300 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 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.
Notable Montezs
- Montez Ford (born 1990)American professional wrestler
People named Montez with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Montez is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Montez is most concentrated in Michigan (4.5×), Georgia (4.3×), Alabama (4.1×), Tennessee (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular boys’ names the year Montez peaked:
Related names
Montez against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.