Fun Facts About the Name Blaklee
- 194 babies named Blaklee: U.S. records list 194 babies given the name Blaklee from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Blaklee Mean?
Blaklee is a spelling of the English name Blakely, also written Blakeley. That name comes from an English surname and place name built from two Old English elements: blæc, meaning "black" or "dark," and lēah, meaning "wood," "glade," or "clearing." Read literally, the compound means "black wood" or "dark clearing." Since lēah also came to mean "meadow" or "pasture," the name is often translated "black meadow," which is a customary rendering rather than a strict one.
The -lee ending of Blaklee is a respelling of the -ley in Blakely, matching the ending of many English place names and surnames formed on lēah. It is not related to the separate English word "lee" meaning "shelter."
Blaklee Name History & Origins
The surname Blakely belongs to the large English group of habitational surnames - names taken from the place where a family lived - that end in -ley, from Old English lēah. Names of this pattern were established in England in the Middle Ages and spread with English settlement to Ireland and North America, where Blakely and Blakeley stayed in use chiefly as family names.
Its use as a first name comes from the wider English-language practice of adopting surnames as given names. Blakely and Blakeley have been recorded as given names, and the spelling Blaklee follows the later fashion of writing the final syllable of such names as -lee or -leigh, endings that are especially common in feminine names. Blaklee is used mainly as a girl's name in the United States.
How Popular is the Name Blaklee?
Blaklee has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2023. Its best rank was #6,712 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,961 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2024 | #6,957 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2023 | #6,712 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2022 | #8,618 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #7,009 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2020 | #10,385 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #8,680 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #7,156 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #8,357 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #10,220 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #11,035 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #7,367 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2013 | #14,912 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #7,872 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2009 | #11,608 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2002 | #15,796 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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