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Montana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 242 in 2025. Its best rank was #511 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #511 in 1998; #1,033 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Montana in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,033 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #511.
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Montana: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 242 girls in 2025. Peak: #511 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 496 (1998).
In 2025, 242 US girls were named Montana, making it the 1,033rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 26 places from #1,059 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 236 girls named Montana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #511, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 496. For comparison, it was #1,674 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 114 US boys were named Montana, making it the 1,525th most common boys’ name of the year, up 132 places from #1,657 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 102 boys named Montana in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #771, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 194. For comparison, it was #1,995 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Montana in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 12,855 US babies have been given the name, 69% of them girls and 31% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,569 babies named Montana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,589 US girls were named Montana; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 242. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,642 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Montana ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #392 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Montanna, Montina and Montanah are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Montanna (924), Montina (214), Montanah (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Montana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 11 | #392 | — |
| Arkansas | 7 | #476 | #483 |
| Missouri | 12 | #505 | — |
| Kentucky | 8 | #554 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #578 | — |
| Ohio | 18 | #586 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #590 | #813 |
| Kansas | 5 | #660 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #692 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #761 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #896 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #913 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #932 | #1,087 |
| Maryland | 5 | #955 | #757 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #955 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #967 | #1,695 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,138 | #915 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,391 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,403 | #1,594 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,562 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,909 | #2,656 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 242 | #1,033 | 114 | #1,525 |
| 2024 | 236 | #1,059 | 102 | #1,657 |
| 2023 | 174 | #1,309 | 110 | #1,588 |
| 2022 | 184 | #1,289 | 107 | #1,631 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,434 | 111 | #1,572 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,738 | 110 | #1,522 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,721 | 111 | #1,527 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,809 | 99 | #1,646 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,811 | 69 | #2,044 |
| 2016 | 138 | #1,602 | 62 | #2,197 |
| 2015 | 128 | #1,674 | 73 | #1,995 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,682 | 50 | #2,507 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,924 | 41 | #2,829 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,182 | 46 | #2,664 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,997 | 28 | #3,752 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,378 | 33 | #3,355 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,717 | 32 | #3,452 |
| 2008 | 192 | #1,298 | 42 | #2,863 |
| 2007 | 290 | #933 | 65 | #2,106 |
| 2006 | 306 | #873 | 75 | #1,836 |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,060 | 89 | #1,570 |
| 2004 | 238 | #994 | 102 | #1,402 |
| 2003 | 304 | #811 | 85 | #1,526 |
| 2002 | 366 | #684 | 124 | #1,150 |
| 2001 | 374 | #673 | 143 | #1,031 |
| 2000 | 432 | #592 | 141 | #1,035 |
| 1999 | 462 | #545 | 141 | #1,000 |
| 1998 | 496 | #511 | 182 | #821 |
| 1997 | 458 | #523 | 181 | #812 |
| 1996 | 374 | #613 | 188 | #778 |
| 1995 | 341 | #639 | 194 | #771 |
| 1994 | 331 | #650 | 185 | #781 |
| 1993 | 225 | #862 | 125 | #963 |
| 1992 | 182 | #1,029 | 118 | #1,002 |
| 1991 | 117 | #1,379 | 93 | #1,142 |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,574 | 79 | #1,248 |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,548 | 73 | #1,278 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,718 | 36 | #1,871 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,298 | 40 | #1,700 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,253 | 43 | #1,553 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,067 | 54 | #1,313 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,894 | 27 | #2,018 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,615 | 15 | #3,023 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,275 | 27 | #2,039 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,653 | 10 | #4,049 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,609 | 11 | #3,764 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,026 | 10 | #3,984 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,232 | 12 | #3,333 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,683 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,086 | 8 | #4,280 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,910 | 9 | #3,838 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,745 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,002 | — | — |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,362 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,596 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,349 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,149 | — | — |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,910 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,725 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,662 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,701 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,796 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,798 | — | — |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,905 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,809 | — | — |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,674 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).