Blade
#3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 100 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,136since 1982
Blade over time
Rank among boys' names. Blade has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,450 | 33 |
| 2024 | #4,200 | 25 |
| 2023 | #4,220 | 25 |
| 2022 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #2,994 | 39 |
| 2017 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #2,722 | 44 |
| 2014 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #2,668 | 44 |
| 2012 | #2,292 | 56 |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 54 |
| 2010 | #2,826 | 42 |
| 2009 | #2,320 | 56 |
| 2008 | #2,542 | 49 |
| 2007 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #2,126 | 61 |
| 2005 | #1,801 | 72 |
| 2004 | #1,953 | 62 |
| 2003 | #1,466 | 89 |
| 2002 | #1,223 | 112 |
| 2001 | #1,283 | 103 |
| 2000 | #1,341 | 95 |
| 1999 | #1,249 | 99 |
| 1998 | #1,347 | 88 |
| 1997 | #1,413 | 77 |
| 1996 | #1,167 | 100 |
| 1995 | #1,232 | 89 |
| 1994 | #1,192 | 93 |
| 1993 | #1,340 | 72 |
| 1992 | #1,731 | 49 |
| 1991 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
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| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Blade! It came in at #5,003, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Blade is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#621 · 1 in 4,020
- Ohio#765 · 1 in 8,191
- Texas#1,664 · 1 in 25,873
- California#2,419 · 1 in 50,833
Best ever in a state: #359 in Oklahoma, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #621 | 6 | 1 in 4,020 |
| Ohio | #765 | 8 | 1 in 8,191 |
| Texas | #1,664 | 7 | 1 in 25,873 |
| California | #2,419 | 5 | 1 in 50,833 |
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See more about Blade
- 750 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #3,450)
- 284 spots since 2020 (#3,734 → #3,450)
- 728 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #3,450)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1996 at #1,167 (100 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,335 boys born in 2002 were named Blade (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,167 in 1996, was only 1 in 18,943 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.5% of all boys named Blade (758) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 86 | #2,690 (1989) | #3,902 |
| 1990s | 718 | #1,167 (1996) | #1,606 |
| 2000s | 758 | #1,223 (2002) | #1,829 |
| 2010s | 397 | #2,292 (2012) | #3,063 |
| 2020s | 177 | #3,100 (2022) | #3,769 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Blade in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 27,740 of them was named Blade, which outranked 86.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,790Tahj73
- #1,790Yaseen73
- #1,790Zaden73
- #1,801Blade72
- #1,801Adair72
- #1,801Alain72
- #1,801Arnulfo72
- #1,813Akiva71
- #1,813Anirudh71
- #1,813Babyboy71
Tied with 11 names at #1,801; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.