The MONTANA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,217	7286	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	224	17741	0	4
Change since 1880	+3993	+10455	+N/A	+12
Other Countries
Australia	36	32888	0	2
United Kingdom	84	24684	0	2

Top States for MONTANA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	689	2981	0.004	36
California	559	5402	0.002	17
Texas	422	5226	0.002	20
Florida	324	6472	0.002	20
New Jersey	297	3478	0.004	35
Top States for MONTANA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	49	2764	0.005	54
Arizona	187	3411	0.004	36
New York	689	2981	0.004	36
New Jersey	297	3478	0.004	35
Nevada	64	3921	0.003	32

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

Classification and Origin of MONTANA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Catalan

Ethnic origin: Catalan

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	156	3.7
Black/African American	153	3.63
Asian/Pacific	68	1.61
Mixed Race	65	1.54
White (Caucasian)	2,619	62.11
White (Hispanic)	1,156	27.41

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

Similar names to MONTANA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MONTANA.

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.