Dontrail
Dontrail was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 141 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontrail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontrail?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,984, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1993, the peak
Dontrail peaked in 1993, when 12 boys were given it, #4,785 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #12,984 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,862 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,923 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,836 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,356 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,731 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,846 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,349 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,026 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,225 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #9,209 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,785 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,340 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,531 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,604 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,400 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,594 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,484 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,817 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,585 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,066 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,518 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontrail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontrail has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dontrail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontrail, and how old are they?
An estimated 136 Americans named Dontrail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 128 people named Dontrail (5 women and girls, 123 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,318 babies since 1880, Dontrail is the third most given (4.2% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dontrail
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dontrail and names like it
- Compare Dontrail and DontrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontrail peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dontrail.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dontrail alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.