Montel
Montel was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,516 among boys’ names; 1,560 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Montel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 27 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Montel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Montel?
#7,516 among boys’ names, 2025
Montel rose from #8,493 in 2015 to #7,516 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 6.4 per million.
162 babies in 1995, the peak
Montel peaked in 1995, when 162 boys were given it, #846 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,516 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,890 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,692 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,100 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,434 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,513 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,036 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,863 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,700 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,005 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,493 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,944 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,317 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,942 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,545 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,722 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,763 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,078 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,434 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,761 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,494 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,538 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,772 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,275 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,375 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,159 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,890 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 74 | #1,492 | 38.7 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,345 | 44.0 |
| 1996 | 126 | #992 | 66.5 |
| 1995 | 162 | #846 | 85.1 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,235 | 45.5 |
| 1993 | 144 | #889 | 73.4 |
| 1992 | 140 | #891 | 70.1 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,075 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,669 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,748 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,915 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,912 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,374 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,907 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,601 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,289 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,619 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,810 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,316 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,732 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,542 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,313 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,473 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,019 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,466 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,811 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,767 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,918 | 6.8 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,639 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,850 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,913 | 5.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,435 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,378 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,362 | 2.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,031 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Montel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Montel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Montel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Montel, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,560 Americans ever recorded as Montel. The median Montel alive today is 31 years old; half are between 27 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,149 people named Montel (41 women and girls, 1,108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,461 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 128 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 802 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 399 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 153 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,441 babies since 1880, Montel is the most given (64% 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 Montel
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 Montel and names like it
- Compare Montel and MontellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMontel peaked in 1995.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Montel since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Montel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Montel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.