The MONTOYA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	57,075	526	0.021	212
United States (1880 census)	2,894	2106	0.006	58
Change since 1880	+54181	+1580	+0.015	+154
Other Countries
Australia	64	20743	0	4
United Kingdom	60	25605	0	1

Top States for MONTOYA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	12,659	289	0.037	374
New Mexico	10,146	9	0.558	5,578
Texas	8,626	356	0.041	414
Colorado	6,353	57	0.148	1,477
Florida	2,937	866	0.018	184
Top States for MONTOYA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Mexico	10,146	9	0.558	5,578
Colorado	6,353	57	0.148	1,477
Wyoming	274	193	0.055	555
Arizona	2,839	236	0.055	553
Nevada	1,012	242	0.051	506

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MONTOYA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MONTOYA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MONTOYA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MONTOYA by picking someone at random in New Mexico than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MONTOYA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MONTOYA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MONTOYA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MONTOYA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	947	1.66
Asian/Pacific	474	0.83
Mixed Race	422	0.74
Black/African American	137	0.24
White (Hispanic)	50,100	87.78
White (Caucasian)	4,988	8.74

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MONTOYA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MONTOYA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MONTOYA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.