Blair

Where Blair comes from

From Scottish Gaelic blàr (“field, plain”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Blair
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,188 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Blair Brown born
    American actress
  3. 1964
    Blair Underwood born
    American actor
  4. 1981
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #169
    1,806 babies named Blair — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Blair Underwood · American actor, born 1964
  • Blair Brown · American actress, born 1946
  • Blair Redford · American actor, born 1983
  • Blair Horn · Canadian rower, born 1961
  • Blair Adams · British footballer, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.