The Mounts surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,960 people carried this name — #8,361 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 74,600 people counted. That is up 3% from 3,851 in 2000.

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In print

Mounts in American newspapers,
1911.

Newspaper page from The Tacoma Times carrying the name Mounts
The Tacoma Times 1911-02-11

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Mounts in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1960s.

1,001 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Mounts. The most, 157, date from the 1890s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 1.7 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 329
Victoria 290
Western Australia 122
Queensland 119
South Australia 89
Tasmania 43
ACT (Canberra) 6
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Mounts.

Who carried it

People named Mounts,
with a public archive behind them.

  • William L. Mounts
    William L. Mounts 1862–1929 · lawyer
  • Mathias Mounts 1846–1899
  • M. M. Mounts 1887–1964
  • Arden Mounts 1917–2003 · racing driver
  • Timothy L. Mounts 1937–1997 · military officer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Mounts,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States205 records

205 records of the Mounts name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 146
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 43
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 7
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Thomas W. Mounts

    Born 1913 in Texas. Enlisted 1943 at Los Angeles, California; warehouseman. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1989, buried at Fayetteville National Cemetery, Arkansas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Jerry Duane Mounts

    Born 1948; from Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Marine Corps, assaultman; killed in action 1968 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Margaret J. Mounts

    Arrived at New York in 1869 aboard the Dacian from Glasgow, aged 21. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 205 records for Mounts in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Netherlands2 records

2 records of the Mounts name in the Netherlands Dutch population registers
  1. A page of the 1910 United States census, Milwaukee
    Example: U.S. census, 1910
    Population register Dorothea Geeruida Mounts

    In the population register of Soerabaja; born 1845 in Soerabaja.

    Open Archives, West Brabants Archief (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the 1910 United States census, Milwaukee
    Example: U.S. census, 1910
    Population register Teuntje Mounts

    In the population register of Tiel; born 1791.

    Open Archives, Regionaal Archief Rivierenland (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. census of 1910, Milwaukee (public domain).

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