Meaning not yet researched.
Greenlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,990 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,990 in 2010; #8,542 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Greenlee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,542 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #2,990.
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Greenlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,990 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 57 (2010).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Greenlee, making it the 8,542nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 601 places from #9,143 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 11 girls named Greenlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,990, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #3,446 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Greenlee in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 7 babies. In all, 842 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 424 babies named Greenlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 204 US girls were named Greenlee; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Greenly, Greenley and Greenlea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Greenly (227), Greenley (215), Greenlea (15).
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 Greenlee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,542 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,143 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,039 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,544 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,180 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,697 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,825 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,697 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,021 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,058 | — | — |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,185 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,514 | — | — |
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).