Meaning not yet researched.
Bentlee: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #576 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #576 in 2012; #1,730 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Bentlee in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,730 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #576.
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Bentlee: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 boys in 2025. Peak: #576 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 446 (2012).
In 2025, 94 US boys were named Bentlee, making it the 1,730th most common boys’ name of the year, down 139 places from #1,591 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 108 boys named Bentlee in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #576, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 446. For comparison, it was #755 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Bentlee, making it the 5,119th most common girls’ name of the year, up 529 places from #5,648 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 22 girls named Bentlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,146, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #3,141 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bentlee in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 5 babies. In all, 5,139 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,853 babies named Bentlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,026 US boys were named Bentlee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 282. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bentlee ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #601 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bentley (63,562 babies since 1880) and Bently (2,524 babies since 1880).
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bentlee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #601 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #718 | #296 |
| Ohio | 11 | #757 | #424 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,119 | 94 | #1,730 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,648 | 108 | #1,591 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,771 | 146 | #1,309 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,480 | 167 | #1,198 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,342 | 196 | #1,082 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,022 | 254 | #892 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,728 | 265 | #845 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,297 | 246 | #886 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,099 | 268 | #829 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,870 | 282 | #815 |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,141 | 319 | #755 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,787 | 353 | #701 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,262 | 402 | #617 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,162 | 446 | #576 |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,146 | 368 | #636 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,315 | 250 | #845 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,117 | 31 | #3,481 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,184 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,160 | 7 | #9,885 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,307 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,220 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,958 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,776 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,691 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).