Blessing

Where Blessing comes from

The dictionaries list Blessing as a given name — a unisex given name of mainly African usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #9,067 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Blessing Okagbare born
    Nigerian track and field athlete
  3. 1989
    Blessing Oborududu born
    Olympic wrestler
  4. 2019
    Peak, #909
    291 babies named Blessing — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name of mainly African usage.
Namesakes
  • Blessing Okagbare · Nigerian track and field athlete, born 1988
  • Blessing Oborududu · Olympic wrestler, born 1989
  • Blessing Eleke · Nigerian association football player, born 1996
  • Blessing Liman · Nigerian military aircraft pilot, born 1984
  • Blessing Kaku · Belgian-Nigerian footballer, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.