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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 12,145 of them was named Blessing, which outranked 92.2% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,518Kenleigh146
- #1,518Malina146
- #1,518Skylee146
- #1,523Blessing145
- #1,523Brea145
- #1,523Brynleigh145
- #1,523Emerald145
- #1,530Anisa144
- #1,530Ashly144
- #1,530Clover144
Tied with 6 names at #1,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 172,450 of them was named Blessing, which outranked 50.5% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,626Zyquan12
- #6,626Zyrion12
- #6,626Zyron12
- #7,050Blessing11
- #7,050Aaban11
- #7,050Aadam11
- #7,050Aadan11
- #7,559Aadin10
- #7,559Aaran10
- #7,559Aaro10
Tied with 508 names at #7,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.