Dontrell
Dontrell was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,206 among boys’ names; 2,840 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,760 Americans named Dontrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontrell?
#6,206 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontrell fell from #3,248 in 2015 to #6,206 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 8.2 per million.
115 babies in 1993, the peak
Dontrell peaked in 1993, when 115 boys were given it, #1,025 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,206 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,107 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,735 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,912 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,595 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,592 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,211 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,461 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,530 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,015 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,248 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,550 | 25.0 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,538 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,689 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,064 | 34.2 |
| 2010 | 71 | #1,960 | 37.0 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,105 | 32.8 |
| 2008 | 77 | #1,879 | 37.7 |
| 2007 | 92 | #1,660 | 44.3 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,898 | 34.5 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,618 | 42.1 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,467 | 46.9 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,326 | 52.6 |
| 2002 | 85 | #1,485 | 43.8 |
| 2001 | 68 | #1,699 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 66 | #1,712 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 76 | #1,491 | 39.6 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,433 | 41.3 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,579 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,389 | 40.1 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,391 | 37.8 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,077 | 55.4 |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,025 | 58.6 |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,107 | 49.1 |
| 1991 | 92 | #1,144 | 45.5 |
| 1990 | 110 | #1,006 | 53.6 |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,324 | 34.0 |
| 1988 | 51 | #1,483 | 26.6 |
| 1987 | 45 | #1,570 | 24.1 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,667 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 44 | #1,509 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,055 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 39 | #1,542 | 21.8 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,866 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,701 | 19.0 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,871 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,490 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,930 | 15.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,687 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,535 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,496 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,843 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,065 | 7.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,115 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,378 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontrell has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dontrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontrell, and how old are they?
2,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,840 Americans ever recorded as Dontrell. The median Dontrell alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,961 people named Dontrell (51 women and girls, 1,910 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 144 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 418 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dontrell born?
The states with the most babies named Dontrell are Illinois, Louisiana and Texas, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 311 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Louisiana | 251 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| Texas | 149 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 122 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 71 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 55 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 38 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 35 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Dontrell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dontrell is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1970 it was given 5.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dontrell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,318 babies since 1880, Dontrell is the most given (86% 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 Dontrell
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 Dontrell and names like it
- Compare Dontrell and DontrelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontrell peaked in 1993.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dontrell since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dontrell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dontrell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.