Montoya is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
Recently, the name Montoya has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Montoya. That means that a girl named Montoya is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Montoya.
Meeting a woman or girl named Montoya is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Montoya can be found in only three: California, Georgia and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Montoya. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Montoya living in one state or another (if your name is Montoya and you live outside of California, Georgia or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Montoya is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00014% of all female residents are named Montoya – that’s just one in 737,019! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 31 women with that name. So, if your name is Montoya, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Montoya has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Montoya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Montoya, you can simply say:
Mouse
Orange
Nut
Tiger
Orange
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Montoya
Montoya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
O
N
T
O
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
O
N
T
O
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Montoya sounds like this:
