Montgomery

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Bernard Montgomery (Monty), a British army officer.
• A male given name from surnames.
• The capital city of Alabama (state), USA (country), and the county seat of Montgomery (county) County.
• small city Montgomery County (county) Texas (state) USA (country).
• town Powys (county) Wales (constituent country), formerly the county town of Montgomeryshire.

Origin

• From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô and *rīks (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).