Meaning not yet researched.
Montrell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #915 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #915 in 1989; #4,212 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Montrell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,212 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #915.
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Montrell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #915 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 131 (2006).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Montrell, making it the 4,212th most common boys’ name of the year, down 713 places from #3,499 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 33 boys named Montrell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #915, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 131, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,473 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Montrell in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 7 babies. In all, 4,008 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,076 babies named Montrell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 413 US boys were named Montrell; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Montreal, Montrel and Montrail 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: Montreal (1,113), Montrel (1,001), Montrail (221), Montrelle (102), Montral (15).
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 Montrell 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 | — | — | 25 | #4,212 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,499 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,984 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,446 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | — | — | 33 | #3,389 |
| 2019 | — | — | 61 | #2,282 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,601 |
| 2017 | — | — | 57 | #2,303 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,754 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,473 |
| 2014 | — | — | 53 | #2,418 |
| 2013 | — | — | 52 | #2,415 |
| 2012 | — | — | 72 | #1,978 |
| 2011 | — | — | 71 | #1,960 |
| 2010 | — | — | 82 | #1,803 |
| 2009 | — | — | 96 | #1,650 |
| 2008 | — | — | 89 | #1,717 |
| 2007 | — | — | 106 | #1,503 |
| 2006 | — | — | 131 | #1,282 |
| 2005 | — | — | 98 | #1,483 |
| 2004 | — | — | 85 | #1,564 |
| 2003 | — | — | 80 | #1,587 |
| 2002 | — | — | 94 | #1,402 |
| 2001 | — | — | 114 | #1,198 |
| 2000 | — | — | 92 | #1,380 |
| 1999 | — | — | 87 | #1,372 |
| 1998 | — | — | 105 | #1,182 |
| 1997 | — | — | 90 | #1,282 |
| 1996 | — | — | 105 | #1,137 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,826 | 108 | #1,094 |
| 1994 | — | — | 94 | #1,189 |
| 1993 | — | — | 127 | #955 |
| 1992 | — | — | 130 | #941 |
| 1991 | — | — | 118 | #989 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,463 | 101 | #1,057 |
| 1989 | — | — | 124 | #915 |
| 1988 | — | — | 79 | #1,129 |
| 1987 | — | — | 98 | #952 |
| 1986 | — | — | 76 | #1,074 |
| 1985 | — | — | 74 | #1,082 |
| 1984 | — | — | 62 | #1,162 |
| 1983 | — | — | 67 | #1,091 |
| 1982 | — | — | 56 | #1,250 |
| 1981 | — | — | 50 | #1,322 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,541 | 73 | #1,062 |
| 1979 | — | — | 70 | #1,067 |
| 1978 | — | — | 59 | #1,163 |
| 1977 | — | — | 39 | #1,487 |
| 1976 | — | — | 30 | #1,732 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,396 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,359 | 29 | #1,680 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,965 |
| 1972 | — | — | 30 | #1,593 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,003 | 18 | #2,252 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,471 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,495 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,852 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,450 |
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).