girls:
819 births since 1891
#4897 (14th percentile)
boys:
22.9k births since 1881
#758 (83rd percentile)
overall:
23.7k births since 1881
#1650 (79th percentile)
The name Monte is the #1,650 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,724 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 78.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #758 (83.5% percentile) for all time with 22,905 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #4,897 (14.3% percentile) for all time with 819 births since 1891.
Monte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1891 for girls). Birth data for Monte is available in 133 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (133 years for boys and 75 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Monte has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Monte reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 55.7% percentile (ranked #292) with 282 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 291 births per million (ranked 52.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Monte ranks #796 for boys (12.6% percentile) with 66 births per million, which is 22.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Monte reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #706) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 31 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Monte".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Monte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.6% confident that Monte is pronounced as MAHN-tee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHN-tay, at 38.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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