Whitlee
Whitlee is given to both girls and boys: 49 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,247 among girls’ names and #10,612 among boys’, #5,267 among all names counting both); 943 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Whitlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Whitlee?
#3,247 among girls’ names, 2025
Whitlee rose from #3,759 in 2015 to #3,247 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 30.5 per million.
56 babies in 2025, the peak
Whitlee peaked in 2025, when 56 babies were given it (49 girls, #3,247 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 54 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,247 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,046 | 33.3 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,044 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,590 | 26.8 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,211 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,772 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,082 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,288 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,141 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,627 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,759 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,918 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,328 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,246 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,833 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,199 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,635 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,547 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,579 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,574 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,954 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,693 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,647 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,801 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,723 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,748 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,347 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,238 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,073 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,556 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,339 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,777 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,938 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,044 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,992 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,683 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,006 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,053 | 9.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Whitlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 943 Americans recorded as Whitlee, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Whitlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Whitlee, and how old are they?
An estimated 934 Americans named Whitlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 566 people named Whitlee (548 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 642 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Whitlee?
Whitlee is a less common spelling of Whitley: SSA has recorded 943 Whitlee and 8,991 Whitley since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,003 babies since 1880, Whitlee is the second most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 564 babies (9.9%), 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 Whitlee
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 Whitlee and names like it
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