# Montgomery

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /məntˈɡʌməɹi/ · frequency rank #8,067

## Definitions
1. A surname from Old French.
2. Bernard Montgomery (Monty), a British army officer.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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23. A neighbourhood in north-west Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
24. A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, formerly the county town of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SO2296).
25. A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
26. Former name of Sahiwal, a city in Punjab, Pakistan.

## 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).

## Common misspellings (16)
`mmontgomery`, `mnotgomery`, `mongtomery`, `monntgomery`, `montggomery`, `montgmoery`, `montgoemry`, `montgomerry`, `montgomeryy`, `montgomeyr`, `montgommery`, `montgomrey`, `montogmery`, `monttgomery`, `motngomery`, `omntgomery`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/montgomery