Bentlee — #1595 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bentlee

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,107 babies named Bentlee between 2007 and 2024, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bentlee currently holds the #1595 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 446 babies received it in a single year. Bentlee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 910 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bentlee performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Bentlee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 288 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Bentlee in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bentlee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,107 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.