Meaning not yet researched.
Montel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #849 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #849 in 1995; #7,520 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Montel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,520 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #849.
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Montel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #849 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 162 (1995).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Montel, making it the 7,520th most common boys’ name of the year, up 4,375 places from #11,895 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 6 boys named Montel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #849, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 162. For comparison, it was #8,498 in 2015 and #4,033 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Montel in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 1,560 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 914 babies named Montel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 118 US boys were named Montel; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Montell and Montelle 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: Montell (881), Montelle (18).
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 Montel 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,520 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,895 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,697 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #7,105 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,439 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,517 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,041 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,867 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,704 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #7,010 |
| 2015 | — | — | 9 | #8,498 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,950 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,321 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #7,948 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,552 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,729 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,768 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,085 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,438 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,766 |
| 2005 | — | — | 12 | #6,500 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,543 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,779 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,281 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,380 |
| 2000 | — | — | 47 | #2,163 |
| 1999 | — | — | 52 | #1,893 |
| 1998 | — | — | 74 | #1,495 |
| 1997 | — | — | 83 | #1,348 |
| 1996 | — | — | 126 | #994 |
| 1995 | — | — | 162 | #849 |
| 1994 | — | — | 88 | #1,239 |
| 1993 | — | — | 144 | #891 |
| 1992 | — | — | 140 | #894 |
| 1991 | — | — | 36 | #2,081 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,676 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,754 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,920 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,916 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,377 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,910 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,604 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,292 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,620 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,812 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,318 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,734 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,545 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,315 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,474 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,021 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,468 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,813 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,769 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,920 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,640 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,851 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,914 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,436 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,379 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,363 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,033 |
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).