Bless
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to boys 60.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 41 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 492since 2000
Bless 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 | #10,107 | 9 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #3,335 | 35 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | #3,566 | 32 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #3,003 | 41 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #3,242 | 36 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #3,201 | 36 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bless! It came in at #7,416, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2003, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Bless is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Bless in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Bless
- 2,808 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #6,143)
- 2,573 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #6,143)
- 2,459 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #6,143)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2018 at #2,893 (41 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 42,586 boys born in 2022 were named Bless (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,893 in 2018, was only 1 in 44,297 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.7% of all boys named Bless (220) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2011, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 84 | #5,334 (2009) | #7,825 |
| 2010s | 220 | #2,893 (2018) | #4,966 |
| 2020s | 188 | #3,003 (2022) | #3,810 |
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.
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