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Bexlee

Feminine

2013high 2022
#3577 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare42 girls in 2025

Bexlee joins Bex — a modern clipping of Rebecca — to the -lee ending, and it stands close to Bexley, a real English place name meaning a box-tree clearing.

How old is the name Bexlee?

Bexlee first appears in US birth records in 2013 — 12 years ago. The typical Bexlee is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Bexlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Bexlee most popular?

Bexlee peaked in 2022, reaching #2661 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 916 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Bexlee

Ours, offered as ours. Bexley is a real place — a corner of Kent named for the box trees that grew in its clearing, and box is a slow-growing evergreen that medieval England used for fine carving because the wood is dense enough to hold detail. Bexlee is not documented as coming from it, and Bex has an entirely separate modern life as a short form of Rebecca. Both are worth knowing, and the box-tree clearing is the better image.

Meaningnot established

Not established

No source is established for the compound. Bexley in Kent is documented: Old English byxe, a box tree, with leah, a clearing. Bex as a clipping of Rebecca is a separate modern development. Neither is confirmed as the source of this spelling.

Pronouncing Bexlee

BEKS-lee

Two syllables, first stressed. Bexlee and Bexley are said identically.

Nicknames for Bexlee

Moderate

BexThe front half
LeeTakes the ending
BexiA softened household form used in childhood
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 2013–202565330654220132025

US babies named Bexlee per year from 2013 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#26612010s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2013
Most girls named
202265 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2661reached in 2022
Change vs 2024
−25.0%42 in 2025, from 56
Bexlee sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2022, with 65 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Bexlee in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Bexley in English — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio, Texas, Utah.

Bexlees among us

500

people named Bexlee are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Bexlee

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

The Deneisha test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bexlee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deneisha climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deneisha's path sketches the road Bexlee is walking now.

40%chance Bexlee will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Bexlee, aligned on its peakDeneisha· peak 1994not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-20 yrs+10 yrsDeneisha · #12666Bexlee today
Bexlee today is about where Deneisha stood in 1997 — 3 years past a #2661-sized peak. Within 15 years, Deneisha had drifted out of the mainstream charts.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Bexlee 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 Bexlee is headed

20132030

US babies named Bexlee per year, 2013 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Bexlee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Steady+2% by 2030projected around #3,635 in 2030

Low 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.

Bexlee beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Bexlee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Bexleethis name42#3577Delphine42#3577Evelyne42#3577Ellanor42#3577Gwenevere42#3577

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The x gives it a hard center that carries across a room.
  • Bex is a complete short form in current use.
  • Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
What to consider
  • Bexley is the documented spelling and will be assumed by anyone who knows it.
  • It sits in a very crowded group of -lee ending girls' names.
  • There is no documented meaning for the compound.

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Frequently asked

How many Bexlees are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Bexlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Bexlee in 2025?
Bexlee ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Bexlee?
About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Bexlee — 42 in all.
Will my child share the name Bexlee with classmates?
Bexlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Bexlee

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Delphine#3577 · Evelyne#3577 · Ellanor#3577 · Gwenevere#3577 · Lian#3577 · Katya#3577 · Kolby#3577 · Cherry#3577

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