Surname meaning and origin

Montoya

Spanish: From monte, "mountain"; or from a place called Montoya

Pronounced mohn-TOH-yah (Spanish [monˈto.ʝa]; US English mon-TOY-uh)

Where the name comes from

  • Spanish
    From monte, "mountain"; or from a place called Montoya
    Spanish monte "mountain"
    DAFN: "Spanish: topographic name based on monte ‘mountain’ or a habitational name from an unidentified place with this name."

Montoya across traditions

  • New Mexico. In 1880, 2,597 Montoya families lived in New Mexico, about 90% of all US Montoyas: one of the colonial Nuevo México families.

Montoya in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.

250
Hebrew Standard
7
Hebrew Ordinal
103
English Simple
618
English Sumerian
86
English Reverse
931
Greek Isopsephy
2
Chaldean
4
Pythagorean

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