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The MONTAGUE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,720 3100 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 3,135 1948 0.006 63
Change since 1880 +7585 -1152 -0.002 -23
Other Countries
Australia 541 2986 0.003 33
United Kingdom 2,506 2443 0.005 55
Top States for MONTAGUE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 826 3681 0.002 24
North Carolina 700 1723 0.009 87
Michigan 689 1643 0.007 69
New York 594 3305 0.003 31
Florida 574 3637 0.004 36
Top States for MONTAGUE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 80 838 0.014 140
Alaska 74 1072 0.012 118
Utah 253 1227 0.011 113
Vermont 67 1669 0.011 110
Delaware 70 2028 0.009 89

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of MONTAGUE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MONTAGUE 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 MONTAGUE 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 MONTAGUE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 219 2.04
Mixed Race 187 1.74
Native American/Alaskan 69 0.64
Asian/Pacific 55 0.51
White (Caucasian) 7,405 69.08
Black/African American 2,785 25.98

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

Meaning of MONTAGUE in historical publications

(origin: Fr.) De Mont aigue--from the sharp or steep mountain.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to MONTAGUE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MONTAGUE.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MONTAGUE

The following words are slight variants of MONTAGUE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.