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Monte: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 121 in 2025. Its best rank was #293 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #293 in 1952; #1,473 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Monte in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,473 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #293.
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Monte: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 121 boys in 2025. Peak: #293 in 1952 · most boys in one year: 623 (1956).
In 2025, 121 US boys were named Monte, making it the 1,473rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 39 places from #1,434 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 127 boys named Monte in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #293, reached in 1952. The most boys given the name in a single year was 623, in 1956. For comparison, it was #1,529 in 2015 and #296 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Monte in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 23,988 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 5,638 babies named Monte.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,182 US boys were named Monte; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Monte ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #757 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mont and Mount are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Monty.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Mont (884), Mount (13).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 6 | #757 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #776 | — |
| California | 32 | #793 | #1,248 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,858 | #1,873 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 121 | #1,473 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,832 | 127 | #1,434 |
| 2023 | — | — | 122 | #1,476 |
| 2022 | — | — | 159 | #1,240 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,911 | 150 | #1,270 |
| 2020 | — | — | 114 | #1,494 |
| 2019 | — | — | 116 | #1,484 |
| 2018 | — | — | 85 | #1,804 |
| 2017 | — | — | 78 | #1,877 |
| 2016 | — | — | 110 | #1,529 |
| 2015 | — | — | 108 | #1,529 |
| 2014 | — | — | 89 | #1,712 |
| 2013 | — | — | 84 | #1,748 |
| 2012 | — | — | 74 | #1,933 |
| 2011 | — | — | 80 | #1,804 |
| 2010 | — | — | 92 | #1,684 |
| 2009 | — | — | 80 | #1,847 |
| 2008 | — | — | 90 | #1,702 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,755 |
| 2006 | — | — | 91 | #1,602 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,052 |
| 2004 | — | — | 86 | #1,548 |
| 2003 | — | — | 89 | #1,473 |
| 2002 | — | — | 79 | #1,566 |
| 2001 | — | — | 69 | #1,695 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,443 |
| 1999 | — | — | 79 | #1,467 |
| 1998 | — | — | 97 | #1,259 |
| 1997 | — | — | 101 | #1,187 |
| 1996 | — | — | 85 | #1,297 |
| 1995 | — | — | 90 | #1,230 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,960 | 103 | #1,117 |
| 1993 | — | — | 92 | #1,166 |
| 1992 | — | — | 109 | #1,053 |
| 1991 | — | — | 111 | #1,028 |
| 1990 | — | — | 130 | #906 |
| 1989 | — | — | 98 | #1,052 |
| 1988 | — | — | 119 | #873 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,781 | 108 | #906 |
| 1986 | — | — | 122 | #826 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,199 | 112 | #855 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,800 | 121 | #794 |
| 1983 | — | — | 128 | #769 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,863 | 142 | #731 |
| 1981 | — | — | 138 | #743 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,742 | 154 | #700 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,763 | 147 | #712 |
| 1978 | — | — | 175 | #630 |
| 1977 | — | — | 208 | #581 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,408 | 199 | #574 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,689 | 262 | #492 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,649 | 265 | #495 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,097 | 306 | #448 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,453 | 360 | #418 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,170 | 438 | #383 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,671 | 422 | #391 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,329 | 394 | #402 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,757 | 450 | #367 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,551 | 417 | #367 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,227 | 429 | #365 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,499 | 476 | #349 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,549 | 567 | #330 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,188 | 592 | #324 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,389 | 581 | #326 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,284 | 563 | #331 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,531 | 469 | #363 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,218 | 475 | #359 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,115 | 544 | #330 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,898 | 617 | #305 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,371 | 623 | #296 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,090 | 540 | #316 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,670 | 568 | #304 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,571 | 540 | #307 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,332 | 570 | #293 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,366 | 475 | #318 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,631 | 530 | #296 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,049 | 440 | #327 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,466 | 313 | #385 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,330 | 312 | #389 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,702 | 224 | #424 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,214 | 139 | #508 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,359 | 157 | #484 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,657 | 171 | #473 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,019 | 200 | #437 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,790 | 207 | #408 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,899 | 233 | #374 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,854 | 224 | #380 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,410 | 264 | #344 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,409 | 192 | #409 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,027 | 180 | #410 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,532 | 164 | #446 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,684 | 148 | #462 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,817 | 145 | #462 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,596 | 139 | #488 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,784 | 126 | #515 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,250 | 146 | #492 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,312 | 102 | #600 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,213 | 96 | #635 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,773 | 102 | #626 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,178 | 80 | #715 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,925 | 96 | #652 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,870 | 53 | #975 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,866 | 44 | #1,081 |
| 1922 | — | — | 40 | #1,133 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,920 | 46 | #1,040 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,284 | 39 | #1,150 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,129 | 37 | #1,154 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,628 | 36 | #1,166 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,607 | 36 | #1,128 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,935 | 34 | #1,133 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,758 | 27 | #1,294 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,087 | 19 | #1,427 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,077 | 22 | #1,098 |
| 1912 | — | — | 13 | #1,402 |
| 1911 | — | — | 14 | #914 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,769 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,621 |
| 1908 | — | — | 7 | #1,182 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,282 | 7 | #1,167 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,669 | 9 | #899 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,363 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,340 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,105 |
| 1901 | — | — | 12 | #628 |
| 1900 | — | — | 14 | #692 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,215 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,200 |
| 1894 | — | — | 11 | #657 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #992 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,238 | 6 | #1,039 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,470 | 5 | #1,071 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #961 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,063 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,076 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #968 |
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).