Montell
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑntɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Montell is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 475K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 75K
- NLNetherlands1 in 524K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
700 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 700 | 1 in 475K | 667 | Montell | 161 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 973K | — | Montell | 46 |
| IT Italy | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Montell | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Montell | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 654K | — | Montell | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | 33 | 1 in 524K | 33 | Montell | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | Montell | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 554K | — | Montell | 9 |
700 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Montell Jordanb. 1968USAmerican singer
- Montell Watsonb. 1985USbasketball player
- Montell Douglasb. 1986GBBritish athlete and bobsledder
- MoStackb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameBritish rapper and singer
- Montell Cozartb. 1994USAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Montell van Leijenb. 1998NLDutch model
- Montell Higumab. 2000JPJapanese baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 333 | #64,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 322 | #58,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 308 | #64,559 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Montell?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑntɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Montell a male or female name?
- Montell is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Montell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 700 people named Montell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montell.
- Where is Montell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Montell is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Montell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 700 people named Montell in 2020, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Montell?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Montell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.