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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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Distribution of montgomery Families in the US in 1920
Number of montgomery families
 582-1162
 195-581		 1-194
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