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 2000
No state had 5 or more boys named Bless in 2000, 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.
Bless in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 151,336 of them was named Bless, which outranked 54.5% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,580Zanya13
- #7,580Zenab13
- #7,580Zeynep13
- #8,027Bless12
- #8,027Aarin12
- #8,027Abbee12
- #8,027Abbrielle12
- #8,534Aaleyah11
- #8,534Aamna11
- #8,534Aariana11
Tied with 506 names at #8,027; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 245,500 of them was named Bless, which outranked 38.8% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,839Zevin9
- #6,839Ziyon9
- #6,839Zoran9
- #7,416Bless8
- #7,416Abdelaziz8
- #7,416Abdinasir8
- #7,416Abelino8
- #8,209Aaran7
- #8,209Aasin7
- #8,209Abdirizak7
Tied with 792 names at #7,416; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.