Montgomery

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Montgomery is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 199 births. Its best rank was 778th, in 1883.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1990.01% of boys
Peak year: 2023210 births
Best rank: #778in 1883
Since 1880: 5,986people given the name

Babies named Montgomery, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,459 boys have been named Montgomery in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 210 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2010s alone account for 20%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 527 girls have also been given it, 8.8% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Montgomery
1880s	28
1890s	25
1900s	26
1910s	123
1920s	127
1930s	81
1940s	152
1950s	431
1960s	579
1970s	286
1980s	269
1990s	466
2000s	750
2010s	1,108
2020s	1,008

In 2023, its biggest year

Montgomery was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2023 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Montgomery

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.