Dontrel

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Dontrel by the numbers

Dontrel was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 22 babies in 1993, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Dontrel

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dontrel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Dontrell31 in the US (2017)
  • Donteenduring or lasting; a form of Dante132 in the US (2017)
  • Donzelyoung nobleman or squire8 in the US (2017)
  • Dontae82 in the US (2017)
  • Dondre19 in the US (2017)
  • Dantrell18 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Dontrel

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