Last Name MOUNTJOY

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Meaning Local: Of Muntjoy.French Mont-joie is defined as a barrow, a little hill, or heap of stones, layed in or near a highway.
A name adopted probably by one of the crusaders, from a place near Jerusalem, which, according to Sir John Mandeville, "men clepen Mount-Joye, for it gevethe joye to pilgrymes hertes, be cause that there men seen first Jerusalem a full fair place, and a delicyous." Lower says, "Some religious houses in England had their 'Mountjoys,' a name given to eminences where the first view of the sacred edifice was to be obtained. This name is still retained in a division of the hundred of Battel, not far from the remains of the majestic pile reared by William the Conqueror. Boyer defines 'Mont-joie' as a heap of stones made by a French army, as a monument of victory."
Origin English, Irish

Rank 26,163 (2000 US census) 23,553 (1990 US census)
Count 879 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.65%, or 832 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.14%, or 10 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.02%, or 9 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.5%, or 22 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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