Montrel
Montrel was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,340 among boys’ names; 1,001 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Montrel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Montrel?
#10,340 among boys’ names, 2025
Montrel fell from #9,286 in 2015 to #10,340 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
56 babies in 1993, the peak
Montrel peaked in 1993, when 56 boys were given it, #1,608 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,340 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,585 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,580 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,759 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,441 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,273 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,460 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,381 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,548 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,590 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,286 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,346 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,557 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,414 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,864 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,590 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,243 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,966 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,924 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,984 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,013 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,173 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,372 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,137 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,376 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,867 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,248 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,454 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,586 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,408 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,973 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,999 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 56 | #1,608 | 28.6 |
| 1992 | 52 | #1,666 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,636 | 25.2 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,194 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,976 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,658 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,913 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,478 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,269 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,593 | 10.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,867 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,851 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,805 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,698 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,878 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,941 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,909 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,178 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,745 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,355 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,292 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,236 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Montrel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Montrel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Montrel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Montrel, and how old are they?
An estimated 965 Americans named Montrel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 696 people named Montrel (12 women and girls, 684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 932 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 Montrel?
Montrel is a less common spelling of Montrell: SSA has recorded 1,001 Montrel and 4,008 Montrell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,343 babies since 1880, Montrel is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 37 babies (19%), the second 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 Montrel
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 Montrel and names like it
- Compare Montrel and MontrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMontrel peaked in 1993.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Montrel since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Montrel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Montrel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.