Meaning not yet researched.
Dontrell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,010 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,010 in 1990; #6,210 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dontrell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,210 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #1,010.
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Dontrell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,010 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 115 (1993).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Dontrell, making it the 6,210th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,099 places from #5,111 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 19 boys named Dontrell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,010, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 115, in 1993. For comparison, it was #3,249 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dontrell in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 2,840 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 894 babies named Dontrell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 290 US boys were named Dontrell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dontrel, Dontrail and Dontreal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dontrel (263), Dontrail (141), Dontreal (74), Dontrelle (72).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dontrell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,210 |
| 2024 | — | — | 19 | #5,111 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,738 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,915 |
| 2021 | — | — | 31 | #3,599 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,595 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,214 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,465 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,534 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,016 |
| 2015 | — | — | 35 | #3,249 |
| 2014 | — | — | 48 | #2,552 |
| 2013 | — | — | 48 | #2,540 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,690 |
| 2011 | — | — | 65 | #2,065 |
| 2010 | — | — | 71 | #1,961 |
| 2009 | — | — | 65 | #2,106 |
| 2008 | — | — | 77 | #1,879 |
| 2007 | — | — | 92 | #1,660 |
| 2006 | — | — | 71 | #1,899 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,620 |
| 2004 | — | — | 93 | #1,469 |
| 2003 | — | — | 104 | #1,327 |
| 2002 | — | — | 85 | #1,488 |
| 2001 | — | — | 68 | #1,703 |
| 2000 | — | — | 66 | #1,716 |
| 1999 | — | — | 76 | #1,494 |
| 1998 | — | — | 79 | #1,436 |
| 1997 | — | — | 64 | #1,582 |
| 1996 | — | — | 76 | #1,391 |
| 1995 | — | — | 72 | #1,396 |
| 1994 | — | — | 107 | #1,081 |
| 1993 | — | — | 115 | #1,029 |
| 1992 | — | — | 98 | #1,111 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,774 | 92 | #1,150 |
| 1990 | — | — | 110 | #1,010 |
| 1989 | — | — | 68 | #1,329 |
| 1988 | — | — | 51 | #1,488 |
| 1987 | — | — | 45 | #1,572 |
| 1986 | — | — | 38 | #1,668 |
| 1985 | — | — | 44 | #1,510 |
| 1984 | — | — | 26 | #2,056 |
| 1983 | — | — | 39 | #1,543 |
| 1982 | — | — | 30 | #1,867 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,417 | 34 | #1,702 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,871 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,491 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,930 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,032 | 16 | #2,688 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,536 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,498 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,845 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,067 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,117 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,380 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).