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 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 198,484 of them was named Blaze, which outranked 43.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,129Zully10
- #10,129Zulma10
- #10,129Zurii10
- #10,955Blaze9
- #10,955Aabha9
- #10,955Aakriti9
- #10,955Aala9
- #11,931Aailyah8
- #11,931Aaleigha8
- #11,931Aaliyana8
Tied with 975 names at #10,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 6,361 of them was named Blaze, which outranked 94.5% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).