Lee — #714 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lee

The Social Security Administration has registered 233,256 babies named Lee between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lee currently holds the #714 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 3,682 babies received it in a single year. Lee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 62,278 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lee performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 35,826 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 16,968 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Lee in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lee 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 233,256 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.