Blakely

#191 for girls in 2025, 1,638 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 94.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
#156
2023 · 1,860 births
Debut · girls
1969
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
20,802
since 1969

Blakely over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201982peak #1,587, 1990girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1911,638#8,9108
2024#1581,892#6,46913
2023#1561,860#6,51713
2022#1671,737#6,14714
2021#1561,837#5,77615
2020#1671,713#4,54021
2019#1831,609#5,34017
2018#2501,308#7,61710
2017#2591,230#5,11118
2016#2701,178#4,77620
2015#357921#4,54521
2014#412777#4,13824
2013#450683#3,86426
2012#546544#3,53030
2011#929278#3,51030
2010#1,075231#4,51721
2009#1,353176#6,09514
2008#2,09297#4,71420
2007#2,56872#4,01125
2006#2,70166#5,07217
2005#2,75660#5,57814
2004#2,80857#5,00716
2003#2,88553#4,11420
2002#2,97649#4,32218
2001#2,63557#3,14328
2000#2,59357#3,21926
1999#3,31338#2,60833
1998#3,64832#3,39022
1997#2,87442#2,75028
1996#3,02839#3,02124
1995#3,28534#2,76226
1994#3,16836#3,21521
1993#2,76843#2,69726
1992#3,14436#2,46729
1991#3,63329#2,98921
1990#4,38022#1,58752
1989#2,76940#2,90221
1988#2,86736#2,59922
1987#3,98321#1,97431
1986#4,72416#2,89117
1985#4,12619#2,22624
1984#4,47816#2,23223
1983#5,45712#1,95527
1982#4,52716#1,73433
1981#5,25413#2,03826
1980#4,32717#2,61718
1979#5,42712#3,56911
1978#4,24216#3,40011
1977#7,5677#2,79115
1976#5,60110#4,4187
1975#5,51610#3,42810
1974—#3,31810
1973#8,4235#3,6948
1972—#3,3449
1971—#4,3756
1970—#3,8367
1969#7,4715#2,86110
1968—#4,1365
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1965—#3,9305
1964—#3,2827
1963—#3,3187
1962—#3,0418
1961—#3,3567
1960—#2,8719
1959—#3,9885
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five girls were named Blakely! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 1969–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Blakely
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 33 spots since 2024 (#158 → #191)
  • 24 spots since 2020 (#167 → #191)
  • 166 spots since 2015 (#357 → #191)
  • Biggest jump: 383 spots in 2012 (#929 → #546)
  • Biggest drop: 33 spots in 2025 (#158 → #191)
Rise & fade · girls
54 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 2023 at #156 (1,860 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 856
  • Highest: 1 in 856 girls born in 2024 were named Blakely (0.12%)
  • Latest: 1 in 981 girls born in 2025 (0.10%)
  • Its best rank, #156 in 2023, was only 1 in 863 (0.12%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 51.3% of all girls named Blakely (10,677) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1991
  • Mostly boys until 1990, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,471 (1969)#7,471
1970s60#4,242 (1978)#6,129
1980s206#2,769 (1989)#4,251
1990s351#2,768 (1993)#3,324
2000s744#1,353 (2009)#2,537
2010s8,759#183 (2019)#473
2020s10,677#156 (2023)#166

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Blakely in 1982

girls
#4,527
16 births · 1 in 105,833 girls
boys
#1,734
33 births · 1 in 54,983 boys

Top girls' names in 1982

  1. #1Jennifer57,120
  2. #2Jessica45,453
  3. #3Amanda34,214
  4. #4Sarah28,483
  5. #5Melissa25,864
  6. #6Nicole21,706
  7. #7Stephanie20,861
  8. #8Elizabeth20,506
  9. #9Crystal19,099
  10. #10Amy18,799
  11. #4,527Blakely16

Top boys' names in 1982

  1. #1Michael68,216
  2. #2Christopher59,223
  3. #3Matthew46,045
  4. #4Jason40,628
  5. #5David40,453
  6. #6James38,874
  7. #7Joshua38,004
  8. #8John34,698
  9. #9Robert34,409
  10. #10Daniel32,652
  11. #1,734Blakely33
More about 1982

girls

1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 105,833 of them was named Blakely, which outranked 63.3% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Blakely
  1. #4,347Xavier17
  2. #4,347Xochilt17
  3. #4,347Zinnia17
  4. #4,527Blakely16
  5. #4,527Adelia16
  6. #4,527Albert16
  7. #4,527Aleena16
  8. #4,716Adriel15
  9. #4,716Aftin15
  10. #4,716Alaine15

Tied with 188 names at #4,527; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1981
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,715Kaleena#2,375 → #660
  2. ↑ 1,197Kala#1,958 → #761
  3. ↑ 1,094Chelsie#2,028 → #934
  4. ↑ 1,081Tenika#2,028 → #947
  5. ↑ 1,044Falon#1,958 → #914
Fallers
  1. ↓ 538Evita#779 → #1,317
  2. ↓ 517Martine#791 → #1,308
  3. ↓ 473Dusty#720 → #1,193
  4. ↓ 470Regan#991 → #1,461
  5. ↓ 401Windy#998 → #1,399

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,814,447 boys got a published name in 1982; 1 in 54,983 of them was named Blakely, which outranked 76.5% of the 7,367 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Blakely
  1. #1,700Tarek34
  2. #1,700Wilmer34
  3. #1,700Yaakov34
  4. #1,734Blakely33
  5. #1,734Abran33
  6. #1,734Allyn33
  7. #1,734Creighton33
  8. #1,774Akeem32
  9. #1,774Angus32
  10. #1,774Antonie32

Tied with 39 names at #1,734; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1981
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,958Colt#2,418 → #460
  2. ↑ 730Eliot#1,695 → #965
  3. ↑ 532Colton#1,334 → #802
  4. ↑ 478Kiel#1,101 → #623
  5. ↑ 416Eugenio#1,411 → #995
Fallers
  1. ↓ 309Marchello#841 → #1,150
  2. ↓ 237Carmen#851 → #1,088
  3. ↓ 234Claudio#976 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 224Irvin#826 → #1,050
  5. ↓ 222Jeramiah#971 → #1,193

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1982 →