Montell

given name · Latin script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/montɛʎ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Montell is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 700 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 475K
  • 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). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

700 people, 2020

Record sources
161 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Montell

  • Spanish:/montɛʎ/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

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.

Where Montell is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7001 in 475K667Montell161
GB United Kingdom≈68 est.≈1 in 1M—Montell46
ZA South Africa≈47 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Montell6
AU Australia≈41 est.≈1 in 659K—Montell34
NL Netherlands331 in 524K33Montell6
GY Guyana101 in 75K10Montell2
JM Jamaica≈4 est.≈1 in 665K—Montell1

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Montell is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Spain, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Moñtell, Móntell

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
196019802000Montell Jordan, b. 1968Montell Douglas, b. 1986Montell Higuma, b. 2000

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)
InformalHi Montell,

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)

23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Montell?
In Spanish /montɛʎ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Montell a male or female name?
Montell is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
Which countries have the most people named Montell?
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. After it come United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
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.

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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” — ranked 16212th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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