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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Spanish: Mountain
  2. Latin: Mountain

First name variations: Montaine, Montana, Montana, Montaine, Montanus

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Spanish and Portuguese: nickname or topographic name from the adjective montano ‘from the mountains’.
  2. Italian: topographic name from Italian montano ‘mountain’, or a habitational name from a place called Montano, in particular Montano Antilia in Salerno province, or the district of Caianello in Caserta so named.
  3. Italian: from the personal name Montano, from Latin montanus ‘mountain dweller’.

This name appears in the following lists: Names from Shakespeare