Dontrell
Last seen for girls in 1991 at #13,147 · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 110 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,824since 1970
Dontrell over time
Rank among boys' names. Dontrell has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #6,143 | 14 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,067 | 19 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,712 | 30 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,879 | 28 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,582 | 31 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,570 | 30 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,201 | 36 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,518 | 31 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,993 | 39 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,231 | 35 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,542 | 48 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,528 | 48 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,678 | 45 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,059 | 65 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,957 | 71 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,099 | 65 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,874 | 77 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,658 | 92 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,893 | 71 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,619 | 84 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,467 | 93 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,324 | 104 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,483 | 85 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,699 | 68 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,713 | 66 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,489 | 76 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,436 | 79 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,580 | 64 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,387 | 76 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,393 | 72 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,078 | 107 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,029 | 115 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,110 | 98 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,147 | 92 |
| 1990 | — | #1,008 | 110 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,327 | 68 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,482 | 51 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,563 | 45 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,662 | 38 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,504 | 44 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,036 | 26 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,534 | 39 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,850 | 30 | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1980 | — | #1,852 | 30 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,465 | 19 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,913 | 26 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | — | #2,508 | 17 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,799 | 13 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dontrell! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dontrell is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#649 · 1 in 4,541
- Illinois#771 · 1 in 8,045
- Ohio#959 · 1 in 14,109
- Texas#1,470 · 1 in 24,489
Best ever in a state: #319 in South Carolina, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #649 | 6 | 1 in 4,541 |
| Illinois | #771 | 10 | 1 in 8,045 |
| Ohio | #959 | 5 | 1 in 14,109 |
| Texas | #1,470 | 7 | 1 in 24,489 |
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See more about Dontrell
- 1,076 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #6,143)
- 2,573 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #6,143)
- 2,912 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1990 at #1,008 (110 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,055 boys born in 1993 were named Dontrell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,008 in 1990, was only 1 in 18,673 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.5% of all boys named Dontrell (889) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 123 | #1,913 (1978) | #3,103 |
| 1980s | 405 | #1,327 (1989) | #1,651 |
| 1990s | 889 | #1,008 (1990) | #1,266 |
| 2000s | 805 | #1,324 (2003) | #1,683 |
| 2010s | 450 | #1,957 (2010) | #2,815 |
| 2020s | 152 | #3,570 (2020) | #4,326 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dontrell in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 29,758 of them was named Dontrell, which outranked 85.9% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,699Vito67
- #1,699Wilbert67
- #1,699Zacary67
- #1,713Dontrell66
- #1,713Adarius66
- #1,713Carmen66
- #1,713Denny66
- #1,725Andru65
- #1,725Benjamen65
- #1,725Brandin65
Tied with 11 names at #1,713; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.