Bleu

#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 58.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
2022 · 61 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
375
since 1979

Bleu over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,72221#3,24036
2024#6,39418#3,10439
2023#4,27633#2,44155
2022#3,82739#2,32561
2021#4,24533#2,81944
2020#5,31423#3,65329
2019#5,44923#4,23024
2018#9,15111#4,47622
2017#10,6899#8,8408
2016#16,2155#9,6647
2015#14,4826#7,06611
2014#13,0697#7,04811
2013#16,5475
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2011#12,2875
2010#12,2768
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2008#11,0376
2007#9,7887
2006#17,1685
2005#16,4625
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five boys were named Bleu! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1979–2006, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Bleu
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 136 spots since 2024 (#3,104#3,240)
  • 413 spots since 2020 (#3,653#3,240)
  • 3,826 spots since 2015 (#7,066#3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 2022 at #2,325 (61 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,623
  • Highest: 1 in 28,623 boys born in 2022 were named Bleu (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 70.4% of all boys named Bleu (264) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2018
  • Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#6,056 (1979)#6,056
1980s0
1990s5#9,265 (1997)#9,265
2000s13#9,788 (2007)#10,413
2010s88#4,230 (2019)#7,659
2020s264#2,325 (2022)#2,930

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.

Bleu in 2023

girls
#4,276
33 births · 1 in 48,624 girls
boys
#2,441
55 births · 1 in 31,101 boys

Top girls' names in 2023

  1. #1Olivia15,329
  2. #2Emma13,590
  3. #3Charlotte12,638
  4. #4Amelia12,365
  5. #5Sophia11,999
  6. #6Mia11,404
  7. #7Isabella10,871
  8. #8Ava9,737
  9. #9Evelyn9,121
  10. #10Luna7,853
  11. #4,276Bleu33

Top boys' names in 2023

  1. #1Liam20,904
  2. #2Noah19,116
  3. #3Oliver14,792
  4. #4James11,739
  5. #5Elijah11,523
  6. #6Mateo11,293
  7. #7Theodore11,093
  8. #8Henry10,996
  9. #9Lucas10,890
  10. #10William10,673
  11. #2,441Bleu55
More about 2023

girls

1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 48,624 of them was named Bleu, which outranked 75.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bleu
  1. #4,191Zeniyah34
  2. #4,191Ziana34
  3. #4,191Ziggy34
  4. #4,276Bleu33
  5. #4,276Adelle33
  6. #4,276Amariyah33
  7. #4,276Ameliah33
  8. #4,363Abigale32
  9. #4,363Adali32
  10. #4,363Adalind32

Tied with 86 names at #4,276; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 1,640Kaeli#2,319#679
  2. 1,512Alitzel#2,388#876
  3. 1,287Emryn#2,174#887
  4. 813Adhara#1,583#770
  5. 717Azari#1,412#695
Fallers
  1. 364Addilynn#940#1,304
  2. 296India#968#1,264
  3. 259Madisyn#805#1,064
  4. 231Chanel#937#1,168
  5. 219Averi#906#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 31,101 of them was named Bleu, which outranked 82.8% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bleu
  1. #2,416Wynston56
  2. #2,416Yanis56
  3. #2,416Zael56
  4. #2,441Bleu55
  5. #2,441Aero55
  6. #2,441Antwan55
  7. #2,441Aviraj55
  8. #2,480Alpha54
  9. #2,480Antoni54
  10. #2,480Arion54

Tied with 38 names at #2,441; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 858Izael#1,665#807
  2. 662Chozen#1,479#817
  3. 589Eiden#1,479#890
  4. 409Cassian#938#529
  5. 385Kyren#1,322#937
Fallers
  1. 384Dior#842#1,226
  2. 275Maxton#963#1,238
  3. 205Davian#967#1,172
  4. 193Braden#935#1,128
  5. 191Heath#862#1,053

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2023