Entry № 6988 · Scottish origin

Monteith Monteith — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mon-TEETH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Mountain of Teith (Cory Monteith; Glee)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "mountain of teith (cory monteith; glee)".

Monteith is from the Scottish Gaelic Monadh (mountain) + Teith (the River Teith). Monteith Avenue — historic Glasgow boulevard. Lea Michele Monteith — Cory's Glee co-star whose son Ever Leo Monteith was named partly in his honor (born 2020).

Mountain of Teith.

The name in its native script.

Monteith
Transliteration
Monteith
Pronunciation
/ mɒnˈtiːθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Monteith stands.

Monteith does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Monteiths before her.

Real people
Cory Monteith
Canadian Glee actor.
1982 – 2013
In fiction
Finn Hudson Monteith
FOX's Glee.
2009

Names connected to Monteith.

The number behind Monteith.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Monteith reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.