Mountain Family History
Mountain Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire; of Norman origin): topographic name from Middle English mountaine ‘mountain’ (Old French montagne). See Montagne . Irish: either of Norman origin as 1 above or a variant of Manton . English: variant of Monkton a habitational name from Monkton (Kent Somerset) Moor Monkton and Nun Monkton (Yorkshire) Bishop Monkton (Yorkshire) or any of numerous other places called Monkton named with Old English munuc ‘monk’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022