Montague
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About Montague
The family name of Shakespeare's Romeo, Montague has a touch of old-fashioned grandeur about it. With clunky-cute nickname Monty and similar sounds to Montgomery, it has been used as a given name since at least the 18th century, with a number of English earls and baronets receiving the name, along with film director, Montague "Monty" Banks, journalist and radio host Montague Modlyn, and cricketer Montague Noble.
Ultimately derived from the Old French , the literary and aristocratic surname means "sharp mountain" or "pointy hill", giving it a nature connection too. Shakespeare took inspiration for the name from Dante's Divine Comedy in which the feuding families are called the Montecchi and the Cappelletti, Montecchi being the Italian equivalent of Montague, meaning "pointy" or "small" "mountain".
Given to just a handful of boys most years in the US, across the pond in England and Wales, it has seen increased use in the last decade. Its current peak was in 2018, when it was given to more than 50 boys, placing it in the Top 1000.
Pronounced MAHN-tuh-gyoo.
As of October 2026, Montague ranked #11846 in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #2036 in 1915.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Montague on lists
Famous Montagues
- Montague "Monte" Pfeffer
American baseball player
- Montague Ullman
American psychoanalyst
- Montague Lessler
American representative from New York state
- Montague Druitt
English barrister, suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders
- Montague Chamberlain
American Businessman
- Montague Rhodes James
English antiquarian and writer of ghost stories
- (Augustus) Montague Summers
English literary critic and clergyman
- Montague Graham Clark
American educator
- Montague George "Monty" Westmore
American movie make up artist
- Curtis Montague "Curt" Schilling
American baseball player
- Montague George Hector Horner
son of Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner
Montague in pop culture
- Romeo Montague and family
characters in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
- Duck the Great Western Engine aka Montague
an engine from TV's "Thomas and Friends"
- Montague the Mouse
character from TV's "Johnny Test"
- Montague Egg
detective in series by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Montague "Monty" Bodkin
character in P. G. Wodehouse novels
- Montague Brewster
main character in movie "Brewster's Millions"
- Dr. Montague
supernatural investigator in Shirley Jackson's horror classic "The Haunting of Hill House"
- Montague "Monty" D'Ysquith Navarro
main character in the Broadway musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder"
- Montague Bone
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series