Montana
#1,033 for girls in 2025, 242 births · #1,520 for boys in 2025, 114 births
Given to girls 68.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 496 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,815since 1910
Montana over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,033 | 242 | #1,520 | 114 |
| 2024 | #1,056 | 236 | #1,650 | 102 |
| 2023 | #1,304 | 174 | #1,576 | 110 |
| 2022 | #1,288 | 184 | #1,626 | 107 |
| 2021 | #1,432 | 150 | #1,565 | 111 |
| 2020 | #1,728 | 116 | #1,518 | 110 |
| 2019 | #1,716 | 121 | #1,523 | 111 |
| 2018 | #1,799 | 113 | #1,638 | 99 |
| 2017 | #1,804 | 115 | #2,032 | 69 |
| 2016 | #1,598 | 138 | #2,184 | 62 |
| 2015 | #1,667 | 128 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | #1,674 | 126 | #2,492 | 50 |
| 2013 | #1,918 | 104 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2011 | #1,982 | 99 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #1,710 | 129 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #1,295 | 192 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #932 | 290 | #2,094 | 65 |
| 2006 | #869 | 306 | #1,823 | 75 |
| 2005 | #1,054 | 226 | #1,569 | 89 |
| 2004 | #993 | 238 | #1,394 | 102 |
| 2003 | #810 | 304 | #1,513 | 85 |
| 2002 | #684 | 366 | #1,147 | 124 |
| 2001 | #670 | 374 | #1,027 | 143 |
| 2000 | #592 | 432 | #1,035 | 141 |
| 1999 | #544 | 462 | #996 | 141 |
| 1998 | #510 | 496 | #821 | 182 |
| 1997 | #523 | 458 | #810 | 181 |
| 1996 | #611 | 374 | #775 | 188 |
| 1995 | #638 | 341 | #769 | 194 |
| 1994 | #650 | 331 | #779 | 185 |
| 1993 | #857 | 225 | #962 | 125 |
| 1992 | #1,025 | 182 | #997 | 118 |
| 1991 | #1,375 | 117 | #1,139 | 93 |
| 1990 | #1,568 | 97 | #1,238 | 79 |
| 1989 | #1,540 | 92 | #1,268 | 73 |
| 1988 | #1,704 | 75 | #1,849 | 36 |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 | #1,684 | 40 |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 | #1,535 | 43 |
| 1985 | #2,048 | 52 | #1,304 | 54 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,110 | 16 | — | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 | — | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,973 | 11 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,731 | 12 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,063 | 17 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,552 | 12 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,883 | 17 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,034 | 10 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Montana! It came in at #2,398, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1912, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Montana
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,056 → #1,033)
- 695 spots since 2020 (#1,728 → #1,033)
- 634 spots since 2015 (#1,667 → #1,033)
- Biggest jump: 207 spots in 1994 (#857 → #650)
- Biggest drop: 363 spots in 2008 (#932 → #1,295)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1998 at #510 (496 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1993–2004
- Highest: 1 in 3,562 girls born in 1998 were named Montana (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,642 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 35.0% of all girls named Montana (3,083) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1985, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 92 | #1,883 (1915) | #2,574 |
| 1920s | 69 | #2,731 (1920) | #3,528 |
| 1930s | 68 | #2,110 (1930) | #3,510 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 15 | #5,563 (1952) | #5,756 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 53 | #3,963 (1976) | #6,815 |
| 1980s | 365 | #1,540 (1989) | #4,120 |
| 1990s | 3,083 | #510 (1998) | #830 |
| 2000s | 2,857 | #592 (2000) | #961 |
| 2010s | 1,111 | #1,598 (2016) | #1,868 |
| 2020s | 1,102 | #1,033 (2025) | #1,307 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Montana in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 14,177 of them was named Montana, which outranked 91.3% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,665Payten127
- #1,665Yvonne127
- #1,665Zola127
- #1,674Montana126
- #1,674Abigale126
- #1,674Amor126
- #1,674Arianny126
- #1,684Aspyn125
- #1,684Evelin125
- #1,684Gillian125
Tied with 9 names at #1,674; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 38,417 of them was named Montana, which outranked 82.3% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,461Townes51
- #2,461Waleed51
- #2,461Wilfredo51
- #2,492Montana50
- #2,492Abiel50
- #2,492Bayron50
- #2,492Blayden50
- #2,516Advaith49
- #2,516Armon49
- #2,516Atom49
Tied with 23 names at #2,492; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.