Monte
Monte is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 127 births. Its best rank was 293rd, in 1952.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1270.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1956623 births
- Best rank
- #293in 1952
- Since 1881
- 23,865people given the name
The story in the numbers
23,037 boys have been named Monte in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 623 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 24%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 828 girls have also been given it, 3.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Monte | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 44 | |
| 1900s | 70 | |
| 1910s | 243 | |
| 1920s | 698 | |
| 1930s | 1,728 | |
| 1940s | 2,396 | |
| 1950s | 5,482 | |
| 1960s | 4,938 | |
| 1970s | 2,782 | |
| 1980s | 1,241 | |
| 1990s | 997 | |
| 2000s | 816 | |
| 2010s | 916 | |
| 2020s | 671 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Monte was the 296th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Monte
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darrellpeak 1958
- Delpeak 1958
- Douglaspeak 1957
- Davidpeak 1955
- Montypeak 1961
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Frankiepeak 1959
- Kentpeak 1962
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.