Montrell
Montrell was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,211 among boys’ names; 4,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,870 Americans named Montrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Montrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Montrell?
#4,211 among boys’ names, 2025
Montrell fell from #2,472 in 2015 to #4,211 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 14.6 per million.
131 babies in 2006, the peak
Montrell peaked in 2006, when 131 boys were given it, #1,282 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,211 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,497 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,983 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,444 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,336 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,387 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,281 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,600 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,302 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,753 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,472 | 26.6 |
| 2014 | 53 | #2,416 | 27.6 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,414 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 72 | #1,977 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,959 | 37.4 |
| 2010 | 82 | #1,802 | 42.7 |
| 2009 | 96 | #1,649 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 89 | #1,717 | 43.6 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,503 | 51.1 |
| 2006 | 131 | #1,282 | 63.7 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,482 | 49.1 |
| 2004 | 85 | #1,561 | 42.8 |
| 2003 | 80 | #1,584 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,399 | 48.4 |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,196 | 58.7 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,377 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,369 | 45.3 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,179 | 54.9 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,279 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,135 | 55.4 |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,091 | 56.7 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,185 | 48.7 |
| 1993 | 127 | #953 | 64.8 |
| 1992 | 130 | #938 | 65.1 |
| 1991 | 118 | #983 | 58.4 |
| 1990 | 101 | #1,053 | 49.2 |
| 1989 | 124 | #912 | 62.0 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,127 | 41.3 |
| 1987 | 98 | #951 | 52.5 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,073 | 41.3 |
| 1985 | 74 | #1,081 | 40.0 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,161 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,091 | 37.4 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,249 | 30.9 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,322 | 27.9 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,062 | 40.9 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,067 | 40.7 |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,163 | 35.9 |
| 1977 | 39 | #1,487 | 23.7 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,731 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 40 | #1,396 | 25.6 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,680 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,964 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,593 | 18.5 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,251 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,470 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,494 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,851 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,449 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Montrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Montrell has been given almost only to boys: 28 girls in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Montrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Montrell, and how old are they?
3,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,008 Americans ever recorded as Montrell. The median Montrell alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,728 people named Montrell (78 women and girls, 2,650 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,713 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 424 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 565 |
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 Montrell born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,834 | 0.7× |
Where Montrell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Montrell is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1967 it was given 4.5 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 Montrell 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 6,343 babies since 1880, Montrell is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 37 babies (68%), again the most given.
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 Montrell
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 Montrell and names like it
- Compare Montrell and MontrealBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMontrell peaked in 2006.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Montrell since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Montrell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Montrell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.