Montreal
#13,269 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Montreal has been given to 1,113 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #13,269 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 50 recorded.
Babies named Montreal, 2025
1 in 663,000
Montreal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Montreal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,269
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Montreal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Montreal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Montreals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Montreal was born before 1994 — so the typical Montreal is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,113
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (335).
Is Montreal 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
- −5,140
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,071
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.0%
- Peak was 1990 (50)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.0% average annual change
Spellings of Montreal
Montreal is not the most common spelling — Montrell is, with 33.3% against Montreal's 9.3%.
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 Montreal is used
Across 1910–2025, Montreal was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 349,796 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Mississippi1 in —
- 7Texas1 in —
- 8Virginia1 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. Montreal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Montreal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Montreal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Montreal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.