Dontrel
Dontrel was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,531 among boys’ names; 263 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontrel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontrel?
#12,531 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontrel entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,531 in 2025.
22 babies in 1993, the peak
Dontrel peaked in 1993, when 22 boys were given it, #3,071 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,531 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,133 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,788 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,771 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,207 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,149 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,042 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,925 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,385 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,653 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 12 | #5,964 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,545 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,015 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,396 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,456 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,384 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,587 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,596 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,071 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,711 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,854 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,760 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,349 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,325 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,495 | 7.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,586 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,540 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,519 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontrel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontrel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dontrel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontrel, and how old are they?
An estimated 255 Americans named Dontrel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 219 people named Dontrel (2 women and girls, 217 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Dontrel?
Dontrel is a less common spelling of Dontrell: SSA has recorded 263 Dontrel and 2,840 Dontrell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,318 babies since 1880, Dontrel is the second most given (7.9% 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 Dontrel
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 Dontrel and names like it
- Compare Dontrel and DontrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontrel peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dontrel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dontrel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.