Blaise
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #1,038 for boys in 2025, 213 births
Given to boys 90.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 214 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,768since 1913
Blaise over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | #1,038 | 213 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | #1,106 | 194 |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | #1,080 | 199 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 | #1,015 | 219 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #1,006 | 217 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #935 | 235 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | #927 | 235 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | #1,012 | 204 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #910 | 234 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #904 | 238 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #808 | 283 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 | #851 | 262 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #904 | 230 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #909 | 227 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #935 | 213 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #949 | 211 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #969 | 206 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,031 | 184 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #990 | 197 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #985 | 188 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #999 | 172 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #884 | 196 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #804 | 216 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #803 | 214 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | #805 | 208 |
| 2000 | #4,527 | 26 | #942 | 161 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #889 | 169 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #900 | 160 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #966 | 136 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | #979 | 128 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #1,069 | 110 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | #1,002 | 123 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #1,015 | 117 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #1,221 | 85 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #1,162 | 90 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #1,086 | 96 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #1,057 | 97 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #1,070 | 86 |
| 1987 | — | #1,337 | 55 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | — | #1,181 | 63 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #1,534 | 39 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,899 | 29 |
| 1980 | — | #1,765 | 32 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,570 | 37 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,616 | 34 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,780 | 29 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,828 | 27 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,835 | 26 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,886 | 24 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,653 | 28 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,597 | 30 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,615 | 28 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,492 | 29 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,788 | 20 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,364 | 31 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,401 | 30 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,064 | 48 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,070 | 50 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,069 | 51 | |
| 1962 | — | #984 | 60 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,013 | 59 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,008 | 58 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,004 | 59 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,277 | 36 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,278 | 37 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,032 | 53 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,219 | 38 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,137 | 43 | |
| 1953 | — | #989 | 53 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,430 | 28 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,462 | 26 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,434 | 26 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,872 | 16 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,346 | 29 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,482 | 25 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,759 | 17 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,080 | 12 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,910 | 15 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,523 | 9 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,903 | 14 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,894 | 14 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #1,901 | 14 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,992 | 13 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #2,387 | 12 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,950 | 9 | |
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Blaise! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Blaise
- 68 spots since 2024 (#1,106 → #1,038)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#935 → #1,038)
- 230 spots since 2015 (#808 → #1,038)
- Biggest jump: 441 spots in 1953 (#1,430 → #989)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 1954 (#989 → #1,137)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2002 at #803 (214 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1996–2007
- Highest: 1 in 6,773 boys born in 2015 were named Blaise (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,019 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #803 in 2002, was only 1 in 9,072 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.7% of all boys named Blaise (2,337) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 43 | #2,423 (1917) | #3,152 |
| 1920s | 60 | #2,387 (1928) | #3,161 |
| 1930s | 82 | #1,901 (1938) | #2,687 |
| 1940s | 160 | #1,346 (1948) | #1,916 |
| 1950s | 399 | #989 (1953) | #1,226 |
| 1960s | 436 | #984 (1962) | #1,225 |
| 1970s | 281 | #1,570 (1979) | #1,754 |
| 1980s | 537 | #1,057 (1989) | #1,418 |
| 1990s | 1,214 | #889 (1999) | #1,029 |
| 2000s | 1,942 | #803 (2002) | #921 |
| 2010s | 2,337 | #808 (2015) | #911 |
| 2020s | 1,277 | #935 (2020) | #1,030 |
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.
Blaise in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 144,231 of them was named Blaise, which outranked 57.4% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,253Zeina14
- #6,253Zelina14
- #6,253Zully14
- #6,588Blaise13
- #6,588Abbygail13
- #6,588Abena13
- #6,588Addy13
- #6,976Aarica12
- #6,976Abygail12
- #6,976Adah12
Tied with 387 names at #6,588; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 22,448 of them was named Blaise, which outranked 88.0% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,155Kale91
- #1,155Taj91
- #1,155Taurean91
- #1,162Blaise90
- #1,162Arnoldo90
- #1,162Donny90
- #1,162Isai90
- #1,170Adriel89
- #1,170Alek89
- #1,170Brennon89
Tied with 7 names at #1,162; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.