Meaning not yet researched.
Whitlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,044 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,044 in 2023; #3,247 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Whitlee in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,247 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #3,044.
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Whitlee: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,044 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 55 (2023).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Whitlee, making it the 3,247th most common girls’ name of the year, down 201 places from #3,046 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 54 girls named Whitlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,044, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 55. For comparison, it was #3,760 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Whitlee, making it the 10,616th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #10,616, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 7. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Whitlee in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 17 babies. In all, 943 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 363 babies named Whitlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 477 US girls were named Whitlee; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Whitley (8,991 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Whitlee 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 | 49 | #3,247 | 7 | #10,616 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,592 | 6 | #12,248 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,773 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,628 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,248 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,836 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,202 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,639 | — | — |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,550 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,583 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,579 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,961 | — | — |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,698 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,652 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,807 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,730 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,756 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,355 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,245 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,079 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,561 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,344 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,783 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,944 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,051 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,998 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,058 | — | — |
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).