Montrell
Masculine
Montrell is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 3,980 boys against 28 girls since 1880.
Montrell joins a Mont- opening to a -rell ending, and the front has a real word behind it — French mont, a hill, which names half the places in France.
How old is the name Montrell?
Montrell first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Montrell alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 3,900 people named Montrell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Montrell most popular?
Montrell peaked in 1989, reaching #911 nationally. Today it ranks #4139, 3,228 places below that high. See the whole 1989 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Montrell
Ours, offered as ours. Mont is one of the most productive elements in French place naming — Montmartre, the martyr's hill; Montreal, the royal mount; Montpellier — and it traveled into English surnames with the Normans. The -rell ending is American and belongs with Terrell and Darrell. Montrell puts a French hill in front of a modern American suffix, which is a fair description of a great many names made since 1970.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for the compound. French mont, from Latin mons, a mountain, opens Montreal, Montgomery and Montague. The -rell ending is a modern American suffix shared with Terrell and Darrell. Neither half is documented as the source.
Pronouncing Montrell
mon-TREL
Two syllables with the stress on the second. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Montrell
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 2006131 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #911reached in 1989
- Change vs 2024
- −24.2%25 in 2025, from 33
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Montrell in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mont in French — related form
- Terrell in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Tennessee.
Montrells among us
people named Montrell are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was named Montrell
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Montrell
- #4139
- Montrell on the 2025 chart
- #896
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Montrell went to 25 boys in 2025, but Montrel is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 32, which makes it the 896th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,243 places above the chart.
- Montrell25
- Montrel7
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 68,323 for Montrell itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darry test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Montrell's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darry climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darry's path sketches the road Montrell is walking now.
Montrell sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Montrell is headed
Montrell should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Montrell beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Montrell in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Monty is a complete short form with its own long record.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- A real French element stands at the front of it.
- Montrell, Montrel and Montrelle are all in use and none is dominant.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Montrells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,900 people named Montrell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Montrell?
- Montrell is the most-used spelling in US records — 25 of the 32 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Montrel.
- How popular is the name Montrell in 2025?
- Montrell ranks #4139 among US boy names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Montrell?
- About 1 in every 68,323 US boys born in 2025 was named Montrell — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Montrell with classmates?
- Montrell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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