The montgomery Surname
montgomery Name Meaning and History
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’ + ric ‘power’. In Ireland this
surname has been Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as
Mac Gumaraid.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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