Montgomery is not in the Bible. It is a Norman French place name meaning “Gumarich’s mountain,” and it came to Britain with the Norman Conquest as the surname of Roger de Montgomery. It has no Hebrew root and no connection to Gomer, the Bible name it resembles. What does the name Montgomery mean? The name began as a place in Normandy, in what is now the Calvados department of France. Its first part is the French mont, “mountain” or “hill.”…

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