Last Name MOUNTAIN

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Meaning Local: At the mountain. French 'de la Montaigne' anglicized to Mountain. There is an instance of 'de Montaign' settling as Mountain in county Norfolk after the Edict of Nantes.
A name of place. This name once gave occasion to a pun which would have been excellent, had the allusion been made to any other book than the Holy Scriptures. Dr. Mountain, chaplain to Charles II, was asked one day by that monarch to whom he should present a certain bishopric just then vacant. " If you had but faith, sire," replied he, "I could tell you to whom." "How so," said Charles, "if I had but faith." "Why, yes," said the witty cleric, "your majesty might then say to this 'Mountain, be thou removed into that sea.'" The chaplain succeeded.
Origin English, French, Irish

Rank 9,310 (2000 US census) 8,627 (1990 US census)
Count 3,215 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 84.26%, or 2709 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 7.31%, or 235 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.31%, or 10 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 5.32%, or 171 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.9%, or 61 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 0.9%, or 29 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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