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Tanner is a gender neutral nickname for the name Montana in the context as an American English regional nickname (Appalachian).
The use of Montana as a name predates the existence of the US state of Montana... by far!Montana was used by Roman women as a cognomen, just like its masculine counterpart Montanus was used as a cognomen by Roman men.The Montanas are less well attested than the Montanuses, though - which is at least partly due to the position of women in Roman society.- general search for Montana at the Epigraphic Database of Heidelberg: https://edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/inschrift/suche?qs=Montana (in English)
• Aponia Montana (2nd century AD): see page 483 of "Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West" written by Emily Hemelrijk: https://books.google.de/books?id=wDZICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA483 (in English)
• Appaea Montana (era uncertain): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artoria_gens#Undated_Artorii (in English)
• Galeria Montana, mother of Galerius Montanus, a soldier of the Legio XI Claudia: see page 159 of "The Roman Army in Moesia Inferior" written by Florian Matei-Popescu: https://www.academia.edu/1199113/The_Roman_Army_in_Moesia_Inferior_Bucharest_2010_Centre_for_Roman_Military_Studies_7_ (in English)
• Luscia Montana (era uncertain): http://www.attalus.org/docs/cil/epitaph.html (in English)
• Montana, wife of Mauricius (6th century AD): see page 733 of "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy" edited by Christer Bruun and Jonathan Edmondson: https://books.google.de/books?id=Z2bDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA733 (in English)
• Petacia Montana (era not clear): see page 527 of "The World of Pompeii" edited by John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss: https://books.google.de/books?id=OmuGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA527 (in English)
• Saturia Montana (era uncertain): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturia_gens#Undated_Saturii (in English)
The name Montana was given to 125 girls and 71 boys born in the US in 2015.
It's masculine.

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