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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| 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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#129 · 1 in 464
- Oklahoma#203 · 1 in 810
- Mississippi#209 · 1 in 897
- Kentucky#231 · 1 in 1,056
- Indiana#236 · 1 in 1,049
Best ever in a state: #129 in West Virginia, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #129 | 18 | 1 in 464 |
| Oklahoma | #203 | 25 | 1 in 810 |
| Mississippi | #209 | 15 | 1 in 897 |
| Kentucky | #231 | 21 | 1 in 1,056 |
| Indiana | #236 | 34 | 1 in 1,049 |
| Alabama | #250 | 19 | 1 in 1,168 |
| Idaho | #294 | 7 | 1 in 1,157 |
| Tennessee | #306 | 23 | 1 in 1,556 |
| Ohio | #318 | 32 | 1 in 1,868 |
| Arkansas | #339 | 9 | 1 in 1,586 |
| South Carolina | #364 | 11 | 1 in 1,901 |
| Missouri | #389 | 15 | 1 in 2,117 |
| Michigan | #453 | 17 | 1 in 2,802 |
| Kansas | #455 | 7 | 1 in 2,299 |
| North Carolina | #463 | 17 | 1 in 2,974 |
| Minnesota | #480 | 9 | 1 in 3,077 |
| Oregon | #531 | 6 | 1 in 3,012 |
| Georgia | #558 | 15 | 1 in 3,601 |
| Louisiana | #567 | 8 | 1 in 3,023 |
| Pennsylvania | #640 | 12 | 1 in 5,019 |
| Texas | #685 | 33 | 1 in 5,383 |
| Virginia | #688 | 8 | 1 in 5,228 |
| Wisconsin | #700 | 5 | 1 in 5,458 |
| Illinois | #727 | 12 | 1 in 5,543 |
| Florida | #794 | 15 | 1 in 6,131 |
| Washington | #929 | 5 | 1 in 7,185 |
| New York | #1,800 | 5 | 1 in 20,861 |
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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
- 139 spots since 2024 (#1,589 → #1,728)
- 836 spots since 2020 (#892 → #1,728)
- 973 spots since 2015 (#755 → #1,728)
- Biggest jump: 2,631 spots in 2010 (#3,476 → #845)
- Biggest drop: 189 spots in 2021 (#892 → #1,081)
- 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.
Bentlee in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 20,242 of them was named Bentlee, which outranked 88.9% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,145Nataleigh88
- #2,145Symone88
- #2,145Zaniah88
- #2,160Bentlee87
- #2,160Analee87
- #2,160Anja87
- #2,160Braylynn87
- #2,189Alanis86
- #2,189Alonna86
- #2,189Annalyse86
Tied with 28 names at #2,160; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 4,253 of them was named Bentlee, which outranked 96.0% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).