Bliss

Where Bliss comes from

The dictionaries list Bliss as a given name — a unisex given name from English — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1943
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1986
    Peak, #1,691
    69 babies named Bliss — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,784.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from English.
Namesakes

No widely known Bliss turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.