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Question:Old French.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Old French.

A corruption of the Latin 'Mons Gomeris,' Gomer's mount. Gomer, the son of Japhet, the hereditary name of the Gauls.

I have given the country of origin for both first and last names.
Montgomery
English: transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name from various places in Calvados. The placename is derived from Old French mont hill + the Germanic personal name Gomeric “man power”. It has never been common as a given name, although it was given additional currency by the actor Montgomery Clift (1920-66), and during and after the Second World War by the British field marshal, Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976).
A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University.
Last Name
Montgomery
English, Scottish, and northern Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Calvados, France, so named from Old French mont ‘hill’ + a Germanic personal name composed of the elements guma ‘man’ + ric ‘power’. In Ireland this surname has been Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.
Hope this helps.

We are Montgomery's and the name came into our family by way of Huge Montgomery who migrated to the US around 1790. What part of the country do you live in , cousin??? LOL