Blakelee
Feminine · “dark clearing”
Blakelee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,385 girls against 33 boys since 1880.
Blakelee respells Blakeley, and the Old English words for black and pale collapsed into each other so completely that the name could mean either.
How old is the name Blakelee?
Blakelee first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Blakelee is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,400 people named Blakelee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blakelee most popular?
Blakelee peaked in 2019, reaching #1724 nationally. Today it ranks #2117, 393 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From blæc leah to Blakelee
The story of Blakelee
The collapse of blæc and blac left a whole set of English surnames whose meaning cannot be decided — a Blake ancestor was either very dark or very fair. Blakeley is an English place name and surname. Blakelee appears in the American registers from the 2010s, chiefly for girls, and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
dark clearing; or pale clearing
From the Old English blæc, 'black', or blac, 'pale' — two words whose spellings fell together in Middle English — plus leah, 'clearing'. The surname is genuinely ambiguous between them. The -lee respelling is modern with no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- blæc leah
- Blakeley
- Blakelee
Related forms: Blakeley · Blakely
Pronouncing Blakelee
BLAYK-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Blakelee
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
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 2019120 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1724reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −20.0%88 in 2025, from 110
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.
Blakelee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Blakeley in English — spelling variant
- Blakely in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma.
Blakelees among us
people named Blakelee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 18,264 born in 2025 was named Blakelee
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 Stephannie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Blakelee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stephannie climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stephannie's path sketches the road Blakelee is walking now.
Blakelee 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 Blakelee is headed
Blakelee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Blakelee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blakelee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the meaning is undecidable between opposites is a first-rate fact.
- Blake and Lee are two short forms, both real names in their own right.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- Blakely is the commoner spelling.
- It will be respelled by other people constantly.
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Feminine · #2117 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Blakelees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Blakelee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Blakelee in 2025?
- Blakelee ranks #2117 among US girl names in 2025, with 88 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blakelee?
- About 1 in every 18,264 US girls born in 2025 was named Blakelee — 88 in all.
- Will my child share the name Blakelee with classmates?
- Blakelee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Blakelee
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