Fun Facts About the Name Conlee
- 228 babies named Conlee: U.S. records list 228 babies given the name Conlee from 1880 through 2025. The totals are evenly split between boys and girls.
What Does the Name Conlee Mean?
Conlee is usually treated as a spelling variant of the surname Conley, which is an Anglicized form of the Irish Ó Conghaile or Mac Conghaile - "descendant (or son) of Conghal." Conghal is an old Irish personal name, borne by the seventh-century king Congal Cáech. It is built from two elements: cú, "hound," a word that in personal names normally carries the sense of "wolf," and gal, "valor" or "fury." The compound is therefore often explained as something like "wolf-valor," and older name books sometimes translate the surname loosely as "valiant."
The final syllable is a phonetic rendering of the Irish ending rather than an English word element; English spelling habits allow it to appear as -ley, -ly, -ee, or -lee, which is how the Conlee form arises.
Conlee Name History & Origins
Irish patronymic surnames of this type formed in the Middle Ages, as fixed hereditary surnames spread in Ireland between roughly the tenth and twelfth centuries. Ó Conghaile and Mac Conghaile both belong to that tradition, and families using them were associated with Connacht in the west of Ireland. The personal name at their root, Conghal, is older than the surnames and appears in the annals in the names of early kings and churchmen.
The English forms of the name grew out of the long process of Anglicization, which accelerated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as English law and administration required Irish names to be written in English letters. Because scribes spelled Irish sounds by ear, the same name was written in several ways, giving rise to forms such as Conley, Conly, Conneely, and Connolly from closely related originals.
Conlee is one of the less common spellings of that family of names. It appears in the United States among families of Irish descent and has also been used occasionally as a first name, following the American custom of passing a family surname down as a given name. The country singer John Conlee, born in 1946, is a well-known bearer of the surname spelling.
How Popular is the Name Conlee?
Conlee 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 #7,233 in 2016.
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 | #8,478 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #9,035 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2023 | #7,324 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2022 | #9,842 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #8,128 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2020 | #13,806 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2019 | #16,066 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #8,386 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #12,030 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #11,189 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #15,396 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #15,829 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,386 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #10,065 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #9,938 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #11,050 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #10,868 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #9,057 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #9,011 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #7,233 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #8,166 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #9,841 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #12,502 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #7,694 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #11,259 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #12,874 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2005 | #11,765 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #10,980 | 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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