The MOUNTJOY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	879	26163	0	3
United States (1880 census)	282	14970	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+597	-11193	+N/A	-3
Other Countries
Australia	101	14188	0.001	6
United Kingdom	466	9293	0.001	10

Top States for MOUNTJOY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	115	6118	0.002	16
California	94	22639	0.000	3
Ohio	85	14198	0.001	7
Missouri	80	8116	0.001	14
Florida	50	28892	0.000	3
Top States for MOUNTJOY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	115	6118	0.002	16
Missouri	80	8116	0.001	14
Kentucky	45	7421	0.001	11
Idaho	12	13326	0.001	9
Ohio	85	14198	0.001	7

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

Classification and Origin of MOUNTJOY

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 MOUNTJOY 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 MOUNTJOY 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 MOUNTJOY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	832	94.65
White (Hispanic)	22	2.5
Black/African American	10	1.14
Mixed Race	9	1.02
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Meaning of MOUNTJOY in historical publications

A name adopted probably by one of the crusaders, from a place near Jerusalem, which, according to Sir John Mandeville, "men clepen Mount-Joye, for it gevethe joye to pilgrymes hertes, be cause that there men seen first Jerusalem * * * a full fair place, and a delicyous." Lower says, "Some religious houses in England had their Mountjoys, a name given to eminences where the first view of the sacred edifice was to be obtained. This name is still retained in a division of the hundred of Battel, not far from the remains of the majestic pile reared by William the Conqueror. Boyer defines 'Mont-joie' as a heap of stones made by a French army, as a monument of victory."

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

MOUNTJOY. Fr. Mont-joie, which Cotgrave defines a.s " a barrow, a little hill, or heape of stones, laved in or neare a highway for the better discerning thereof, or in remembrance of some notable act performed, or accident befallen in that place ; also a goale to run at ; also (metaphorically) any heap." A famous French war-cry in the middle ages was '' Mont-joie St. Denis!" and Montjoye is the title of the chief herald of France, corresponding to our Garter, Both the M-ar-cry and the heraldic title doubtless refer to some victory which was commemorated by the casting up of a mound of earth or a great heap of stones — a practice of the higjiest antiquity. A district of the parish of Battel, the scene of the Norman Conquest, is still known by the name of I\Iountjoy. According to Sir John Maundeville an emmence near Jerusalem was formerly so called, because " itgevethe joy to pilgrymes hertes, because that there men seen first Jerusalem ... a full fair place and a delicyous." In charters the name was written indifferently De Monte Gaudii, and De Monte Jovis.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to MOUNTJOY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOUNTJOY.

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.