Bentlee
Feminine · “bent-grass clearing”
Bentlee is given to both — 937 girls and 4,202 boys since 1880. See Bentlee as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Bentley is a clearing where bent-grass grows, and bent-grass is a real and unglamorous plant that takes over poor ground. As a girls' name it belongs to the last fifteen years, and it arrives with a car attached, which is what most people hear before they hear the field.
How old is the name Bentlee?
Bentlee first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Bentlee is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Bentlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bentlee most popular?
Bentlee peaked in 2011, reaching #2143 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, 2,956 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From beonet-leah to Bentlee
The story of Bentlee
The surname crossed to America and would have stayed one but for a British car marque founded in 1919, which made the word a byword for expensive. American parents began giving it as a first name in the two-thousands, for both sexes, and the respellings followed at once: Bently, Bentlee, Bentleigh and Bentli all write the same two syllables. The -lee ending is the one that most clearly marks the name as a girl's.
Meaning
bent-grass clearing
Old English beonet, bent-grass, joined to leah, a clearing in woodland. Several English villages carry the name, all of them describing the same tough grass on the same poor soil.
How the name formed
- beonet-leah
- Bentley
- Bentlee
Related forms: Bentley
Pronouncing Bentlee
BENT-lee
Two syllables, stress in front. Every spelling of this name is said the same way.
Nicknames for Bentlee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2001
- Most girls named
- 201189 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2143reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- +13.6%25 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bentlee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Bentley in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Utah, Texas, California.
Bentlees among us
people named Bentlee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Bentlee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deva test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bentlee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deva climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deva's path sketches the road Bentlee is walking now.
Bentlee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Bentlee is headed
Bentlee is easing off slowly — about 24% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Bentlee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bentlee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lee works as a short form and is a complete name on its own.
- The meaning is a plain piece of English landscape and needs no explaining.
- Every sound is ordinary English, so nobody stumbles.
- Bentley is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected constantly.
- The car association is very strong and is what most adults hear first.
- It is given to both sexes, so paperwork does not always guess right.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bentlees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Bentlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bentlee in 2025?
- Bentlee ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bentlee?
- About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Bentlee — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bentlee with classmates?
- Bentlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Bentlee
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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