Greenlee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- GREEN-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Greenlee is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “green clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Greenlee mean?
English: English surname from a place name
“green clearing”
Greenlee Smythe was a long-running character on the US soap opera All My Children.
Is Greenlee a girl's or a boy's name?
Greenlee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Greenlee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Greenlee, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 57 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Greenlee in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Greenlee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,995 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,429 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,182 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,041 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,212 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,406 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,975 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,125 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,053 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,917 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,563 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,166 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,685 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,531 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
Names like Greenlee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Brylee, Londyn, Teagan, Journee, Briar, Braylee, Ellie, Riley, Ocean, Kinsley, Hayden
Names related to Greenlee
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Greenlee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/greenlee, updated 20 October 2026.