girls:
16 births since 1977
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1970
#2385 (48th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1970
#5101 (34th percentile)
The name Dontrell is the #5,101 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,805 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 34.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,385 (48.0% percentile) for all time with 2,789 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1977.
Dontrell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Dontrell is available in 53 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dontrell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dontrell reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 14.3% percentile (ranked #659) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 56 births per million (ranked 14.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dontrell ranks #887 for boys (2.6% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 28.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dontrell reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #776) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dontrell".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Dontrell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Dontrell is pronounced as dahn-TREHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHN-trehl, at 20.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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