Montgomery
Meanings
name
- A surname from Old French.
- Bernard Montgomery (Monty), a British army officer.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- The capital city of Alabama, and the county seat of Montgomery County.
- A census-designated place in Chatham County, Georgia.
- A village in Kane County and Kendall County, Illinois.
- A town in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Diamond Lake Township, Dickinson County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Trigg County, Kentucky.
- A town in Grant Parish, Louisiana.
- A town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named after Richard Montgomery.
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Etymology
From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).
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