Bentlee
- #5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- #1,728 for boys in 2025, 94 births
- Given to boys 81.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 446 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,202since 2007
Bentlee over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 | #1,728 | 94 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #1,589 | 108 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | #1,309 | 146 |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | #1,198 | 167 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 | #1,081 | 196 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 | #892 | 254 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | #845 | 265 |
| 2018 | #3,293 | 48 | #885 | 246 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 | #829 | 268 |
| 2016 | #2,866 | 59 | #815 | 282 |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 | #755 | 319 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 | #701 | 353 |
| 2013 | #2,259 | 82 | #617 | 402 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | #576 | 446 |
| 2011 | #2,143 | 89 | #636 | 368 |
| 2010 | #2,313 | 82 | #845 | 250 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #3,476 | 31 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | — | |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | — | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | — | |
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| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | — | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bentlee! It came in at #9,788, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2008, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Bentlee is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kansas | #590 | 5 | 1 in 2,809 |
| Kentucky | #708 | 5 | 1 in 4,107 |
| Ohio | #750 | 11 | 1 in 4,776 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bentlee
- 836 spots since 2020 (#892 → #1,728)
- Biggest jump: 2,631 spots in 2010
- Biggest drop: 189 spots in 2021
- Debuted 2007
- Peaked 2012 at #576 (446 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2010–2020
- Highest: 1 in 4,253 boys born in 2012 were named Bentlee (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,171 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 76.1% of all boys named Bentlee (3,199) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 38 | #3,476 (2009) | #6,632 |
| 2010s | 3,199 | #576 (2012) | #750 |
| 2020s | 965 | #892 (2020) | #1,300 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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