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Montgomery

Updated: April 16, 2025
Updated: April 16, 2025

Boy name origins & meanings

  • French : Mountain hunter
  • English : Rich man's mountain

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English, Scottish, and northern Irish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from a place in Calvados, France, so named from Old French mont ‘hill’ + a Germanic personal name composed of the elements guma ‘man’ + rīc ‘power’. In Ireland this surname has been Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.

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