Bentlee
Bentlee is given to both girls and boys: 25 girls and 94 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,118 among girls’ names and #1,730 among boys’, #3,147 among all names counting both); 5,139 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,100 Americans named Bentlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bentlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bentlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bentlee is “a male given name.”
Modern variant of Bentley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bentlee?
#1,730 among boys’ names, 2025
Bentlee fell from #755 in 2015 to #1,730 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.17 to 0.06 per 1,000.
533 babies in 2012, the peak
Bentlee peaked in 2012, when 533 babies were given it (446 boys, #576 among boys’ names). The 119 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,118 | 94 | #1,730 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,645 | 108 | #1,591 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,768 | 146 | #1,309 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,479 | 167 | #1,198 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,338 | 196 | #1,082 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,021 | 254 | #892 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,727 | 265 | #845 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,296 | 246 | #886 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,099 | 268 | #829 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,870 | 282 | #815 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,141 | 319 | #755 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,785 | 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 | #5,116 | 31 | #3,479 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,180 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,156 | 7 | #9,879 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,304 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,213 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,952 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,770 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,684 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bentlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,139 Americans recorded as Bentlee, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bentlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bentlee, and how old are they?
5,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,139 Americans ever recorded as Bentlee. The median Bentlee alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 3,265 people named Bentlee (689 women and girls, 2,576 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,030 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,660 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bentlee born?
The states with the most babies named Bentlee are Ohio, Kentucky and Utah, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky and Utah are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 11 | #757 | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #718 | 3.4× |
| Utah | 5 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Kansas | 5 | #601 | 0.7× |
Where Bentlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bentlee is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 2001 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bentlee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 71,300 babies since 1880, Bentlee is the second most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 119 of their 1,933 babies (6.2%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bentlee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bentlee and names like it
- Compare Bentlee and BentleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBentlee peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bentlee since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Bentlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bentlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.