Montreal
Montreal was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,269 among boys’ names; 1,113 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Montreal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Montreal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Montreal?
#13,269 among boys’ names, 2025
Montreal fell from #6,198 in 2015 to #13,269 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
50 babies in 1990, the peak
Montreal peaked in 1990, when 50 boys were given it, #1,648 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,269 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,129 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,067 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,712 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,436 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,652 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,455 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,971 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,380 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,198 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #4,643 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,826 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,180 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,120 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,955 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,127 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,005 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,825 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,455 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,193 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,715 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,590 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,627 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,231 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,598 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,247 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,987 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,120 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,721 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,003 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,997 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 44 | #1,883 | 22.4 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,503 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,879 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,648 | 24.3 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,843 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,017 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,612 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,337 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,159 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,779 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,318 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,058 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,308 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,501 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 27 | #1,982 | 15.7 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,877 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,329 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,572 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,604 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,492 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,375 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,846 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,235 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,442 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,812 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Montreal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Montreal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Montreal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Montreal, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,113 Americans ever recorded as Montreal. The median Montreal alive today is 32 years old; half are between 21 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 876 people named Montreal (69 women and girls, 807 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,035 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 155 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 456 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 323 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 133 |
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,343 babies since 1880, Montreal is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 37 babies (14%), the third most given that year.
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 Montreal
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 Montreal and names like it
- Compare Montreal and MontrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMontreal peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Montreal since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Montreal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Montreal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.