Montana
Montana is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 235 births. Its best rank was 511th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2350.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1998496 births
- Best rank
- #511in 1998
- Since 1910
- 12,495people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,572 girls have been named Montana in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 496 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 36%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Montana is used for both sexes: 31% of its bearers are boys (3,923), most of them born around 1995.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Montana | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 92 | |
| 1920s | 69 | |
| 1930s | 68 | |
| 1950s | 15 | |
| 1970s | 54 | |
| 1980s | 365 | |
| 1990s | 3,083 | |
| 2000s | 2,857 | |
| 2010s | 1,110 | |
| 2020s | 859 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Montana was the 511th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Montana
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kianapeak 1996
- Jabriapeak 1995
- Yasminepeak 1999
- Essencepeak 1998
- Aziapeak 1999
- Cassidypeak 1999
- Yasmeenpeak 1997
- Kiannapeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.