The MONTGOMERY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	112,144	246	0.042	416
United States (1880 census)	25,729	196	0.051	515
Change since 1880	+86415	-50	-0.009	-99
Other Countries
Australia	3,044	510	0.019	186
United Kingdom	10,284	582	0.022	224

Top States for MONTGOMERY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	9,848	237	0.047	472
California	8,421	374	0.025	249
Ohio	6,745	138	0.059	594
Florida	5,696	300	0.036	356
Illinois	4,811	210	0.039	387
Top States for MONTGOMERY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	2,715	130	0.095	954
Alabama	4,051	145	0.091	911
Kentucky	3,335	131	0.083	825
South Carolina	3,076	168	0.077	767
Arkansas	1,974	151	0.074	738

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

Classification and Origin of MONTGOMERY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	617	0.55
Asian/Pacific	505	0.45
White (Caucasian)	78,748	70.22
Black/African American	28,630	25.53
Mixed Race	1,929	1.72
White (Hispanic)	1,716	1.53

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

Similar names to MONTGOMERY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MONTGOMERY.

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.