Catalan and French: topographic name for someone who lived on
or near a hill, from Catalan and Old French mont ‘mountain’,
‘hill’ (Latin mons, genitive montis).
Dutch:
nickname from Middle Dutch monde ‘mouth’, perhaps denoting
someone with a large or loud one.
Dutch: from a short form of a
Germanic personal name ending in -mond (from mund
‘protection’; compare Raymond.)
Dutch (de Mont):
kinship name from Middle Dutch mond ‘guardian’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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