Montell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Montell has been given to 881 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Montell, 2024
1 in 418,000
Montell over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Montell?
Montell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 215,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Montell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Montell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Montells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Montell was born before 1995 — so the typical Montell is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 37.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 848
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (326).
Is Montell rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (79)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.7% average annual change
Spellings of Montell
Montell is not the most common spelling — Monte is, with 31.8% against Montell's 1.2%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Montell is used
Across 1910–2025, Montell was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 798,734 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Ohio1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5South Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Montell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Montell around the world
Where Montell ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2002#2,254in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Montell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Montell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Montell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.