Monte

At the 2020 census, 4,181 Americans bore the surname Monte — 7,630th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,181
Rank: 7,630th
How common: 1 in 71,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

From Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian, from monte.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Monte described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.6%
Hispanic or Latino 15.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%

Notable people called Monte

Marisa Monte (born 1967)Brazilian actress
Francesco Maria del Monte (1549–1627)cardinal and patron of music and art in Rome
Peter Del Monte (1943–2021)Italian film director
Philippe de Monte (1521–1603)Flemish musician and composer
Toti Dal Monte (1893–1975)Italian singer and actress
Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1461–1533)Italian cardinal
Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte (1532–1577)Catholic cardinal

People named Monte with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Monte

Also a first name

Monte has been given to 23,988 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1956. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.