Belmont
A surname usually taken from a Norman or French place-name meaning “beautiful hill.”
The #9,648 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 91,807 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Belmont comes from a place-name built from French bel, meaning “beautiful” or “fair,” and mont, meaning “hill” or “mountain.” In literal terms, it means “beautiful hill.” As a surname, it was typically adopted by people who came from a place called Belmont in France or Norman England.
History
The historical excerpts link Belmont to Norman and French local names, and one note connects it with a Domesday tenant, Roger de Belmont, in post-Conquest England. Like many locational surnames, it could be carried by different unrelated families who took the name from separate places called Belmont. In England it appears mainly in medieval and later records as a French-style surname or as a territorial byname.
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Fun fact
Belmont is a very common place-name in French-speaking areas, which is one reason the surname can have multiple independent origins.
From the historical record
“mont'or' de BeaumonL' 'Ro^r de Belmont appears in Domesday as ■ chief tenant in cos. Gloucester and Dorset ' (Lower), probably a near kinsman of the Conqueror. ' The Ilin. de la Normandie gives five places in that Province called”
— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with special American instances