Blessing
#1,225 for girls in 2025, 184 births · #2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
Given to girls 89.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 291 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,343since 1975
Blessing 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 | #1,225 | 184 | #2,798 | 45 |
| 2024 | #1,105 | 221 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #954 | 273 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | #1,206 | 200 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | #1,061 | 237 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #1,042 | 241 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #909 | 291 | #3,347 | 34 |
| 2018 | #1,130 | 216 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #1,141 | 217 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #1,267 | 192 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #1,297 | 185 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #1,308 | 181 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #1,524 | 144 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #1,523 | 145 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #1,804 | 112 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #1,860 | 109 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #1,889 | 111 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #1,927 | 109 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #1,971 | 104 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #2,107 | 92 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #1,835 | 103 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #2,457 | 62 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Blessing! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Blessing
- 120 spots since 2024 (#1,105 → #1,225)
- 183 spots since 2020 (#1,042 → #1,225)
- 72 spots since 2015 (#1,297 → #1,225)
- Biggest jump: 252 spots in 2023 (#1,206 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2024 (#954 → #1,105)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2019 at #909 (291 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2019–2023
- Highest: 1 in 5,768 girls born in 2019 were named Blessing (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,735 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.3% of all girls named Blessing (1,792) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 13 | #7,313 (1979) | #8,190 |
| 1980s | 62 | #5,836 (1989) | #8,467 |
| 1990s | 257 | #3,116 (1998) | #4,371 |
| 2000s | 863 | #1,835 (2004) | #2,163 |
| 2010s | 1,792 | #909 (2019) | #1,376 |
| 2020s | 1,356 | #954 (2023) | #1,099 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Blessing in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 291,572 of them was named Blessing, which outranked 14.6% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,551 names at #9,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.