Meaning and history
This name comes from the U.S. state of Montana, whose name derives from the Latin montanus, meaning “mountainous.”
20062006: 306 births, rank #869
2007: 290 births, rank #932
2008: 192 births, rank #1,295
2009: 129 births, rank #1,710
2010: 80 births, rank #2,360
20112011: 99 births, rank #1,982
2012: 87 births, rank #2,160
2013: 104 births, rank #1,918
2014: 126 births, rank #1,674
2015: 128 births, rank #1,667
20162016: 138 births, rank #1,598
2017: 115 births, rank #1,804
2018: 113 births, rank #1,799
2019: 121 births, rank #1,716
2020: 116 births, rank #1,728
20212021: 150 births, rank #1,432
2022: 184 births, rank #1,288
2023: 174 births, rank #1,304
2024: 236 births, rank #1,056
20252025: 242 births, rank #1,033
Montana moved from #873 to #933 for girls between 2006 and 2007. Its highest annual birth count came in 1998, with 496 births.