Montgomery

At the 2020 census, 110,972 Americans bore the surname Montgomery — 275th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,693.

By the numbers

People: 110,972
Rank: 275th
How common: 1 in 2,693
Per 100,000: 37.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

From a surname, from a place in Normandy (for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.4%
Black, not Hispanic 25.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Montgomery

Bernard Montgomery (1887–1976)British Army officer
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942)Canadian writer
Dacre Montgomery (born 1994)Australian actor
Robert Montgomery (1904–1981)American actor
Wes Montgomery (1923–1968)American jazz guitarist
Elizabeth Montgomery (1933–1995)American actress
Poppy Montgomery (born 1972)Australian actress
Janet Montgomery (born 1985)British actress

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

Surnames like Montgomery

Also a first name

Montgomery has been given to 6,248 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. 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.