Blaze
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births · #781 for boys in 2025, 326 births
Given to boys 93.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 354 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,508since 1921
Blaze 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 | #4,878 | 27 | #781 | 326 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | #757 | 336 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 | #767 | 336 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | #753 | 339 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | #774 | 322 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | #841 | 271 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #897 | 244 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #851 | 260 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #809 | 281 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #855 | 263 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #707 | 354 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #773 | 302 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #709 | 331 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #748 | 305 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | #821 | 265 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #841 | 251 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #822 | 269 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #866 | 245 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #876 | 235 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #871 | 228 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #860 | 214 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #819 | 219 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #726 | 252 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #795 | 217 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 | #766 | 224 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | #880 | 179 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #1,039 | 133 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #1,216 | 101 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | #1,190 | 100 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #1,303 | 84 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #1,043 | 114 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #1,168 | 95 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #1,185 | 89 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #1,452 | 63 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #1,183 | 88 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 | #1,306 | 72 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #1,537 | 53 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #1,482 | 51 |
| 1987 | — | #1,587 | 44 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | — | #2,071 | 27 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,364 | 21 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,791 | 15 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,538 | 11 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,506 | 11 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,024 | 8 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,558 | 10 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Blaze! It came in at #4,322, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Blaze
- 24 spots since 2024 (#757 → #781)
- 60 spots since 2020 (#841 → #781)
- 74 spots since 2015 (#707 → #781)
- Biggest jump: 159 spots in 2000 (#1,039 → #880)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 2016 (#707 → #855)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 2015 at #707 (354 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,091 boys born in 2023 were named Blaze (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,239 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #707 in 2015, was only 1 in 5,415 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.6% of all boys named Blaze (2,856) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,322 (1921) | #4,322 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 60 | #2,506 (1958) | #2,931 |
| 1960s | 57 | #2,504 (1962) | #3,228 |
| 1970s | 96 | #2,791 (1977) | #3,707 |
| 1980s | 283 | #1,482 (1988) | #2,434 |
| 1990s | 939 | #1,039 (1999) | #1,209 |
| 2000s | 2,282 | #726 (2003) | #828 |
| 2010s | 2,856 | #707 (2015) | #801 |
| 2020s | 1,930 | #753 (2022) | #779 |
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.
Blaze in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 112,305 of them was named Blaze, which outranked 63.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,392Ziona17
- #6,392Zurisadai17
- #6,392Zyria17
- #6,698Blaze16
- #6,698Aalliyah16
- #6,698Abbegail16
- #6,698Abi16
- #7,045Aalyssa15
- #7,045Abagael15
- #7,045Abaigeal15
Tied with 346 names at #6,698; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 8,947 of them was named Blaze, which outranked 93.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).