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
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 1,860 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,802since 1969
Blakely 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #191 | 1,638 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #158 | 1,892 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #156 | 1,860 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #167 | 1,737 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #156 | 1,837 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #167 | 1,713 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #183 | 1,609 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #250 | 1,308 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #259 | 1,230 | #5,111 | 18 |
| 2016 | #270 | 1,178 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #357 | 921 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #412 | 777 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #450 | 683 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #546 | 544 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #929 | 278 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #1,075 | 231 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #1,353 | 176 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #2,092 | 97 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #2,568 | 72 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #2,701 | 66 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #2,756 | 60 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #2,885 | 53 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #2,976 | 49 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #2,635 | 57 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 | #3,219 | 26 |
| 1999 | #3,313 | 38 | #2,608 | 33 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 | #3,390 | 22 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #2,467 | 29 |
| 1991 | #3,633 | 29 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #2,769 | 40 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #1,734 | 33 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #2,038 | 26 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | #2,617 | 18 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #2,861 | 10 |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2023 at #156 (1,860 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- 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
- 51.3% of all girls named Blakely (10,677) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1990, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 60 | #4,242 (1978) | #6,129 |
| 1980s | 206 | #2,769 (1989) | #4,251 |
| 1990s | 351 | #2,768 (1993) | #3,324 |
| 2000s | 744 | #1,353 (2009) | #2,537 |
| 2010s | 8,759 | #183 (2019) | #473 |
| 2020s | 10,677 | #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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 1,404 of them was named Blakely, which outranked 98.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 102,831 of them was named Blakely, which outranked 64.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,935Zenith19
- #4,935Ziv19
- #4,935Zohan19
- #5,111Blakely18
- #5,111Aadam18
- #5,111Abishai18
- #5,111Aceyn18
- #5,297Abdifatah17
- #5,297Abdulahi17
- #5,297Ahmere17
Tied with 185 names at #5,111; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.