Monte

Where Monte comes from

Monte hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #866 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Monte Blue born
    American actor
  3. 1893
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1952
    Peak, #293
    570 babies named Monte — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1957
    Monte Melkonian born
    National Hero of Armenia
  6. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #494.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Monte Melkonian · National Hero of Armenia, 1957–1993
  • Monte Blue · American actor, 1887–1963
  • Monte Hellman · American film director, film producer and film editor, 1932–2021
  • Monte Markham · American actor, born 1935
  • Monte Cook · American writer and game designer, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.