Bliss
#2,214 for girls in 2025, 83 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 88.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,790since 1916
Bliss 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 | #2,214 | 83 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #2,062 | 94 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #2,533 | 69 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #2,850 | 57 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #3,184 | 51 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #3,006 | 56 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #2,989 | 57 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,828 | 27 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,803 | 37 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,691 | 69 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #2,882 | 9 |
| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 | #2,732 | 9 |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | #2,543 | 10 |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,772 | 13 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | #1,740 | 5 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | #1,233 | 5 | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
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| 1899 | — | — | ||
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| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Bliss! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1942, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Bliss
- 64 spots since 2024 (#2,150 → #2,214)
- 636 spots since 2020 (#2,850 → #2,214)
- 1,215 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #2,214)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1986 at #1,691 (69 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,070 girls born in 2023 were named Bliss (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,365 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,691 in 1986, was only 1 in 24,863 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.5% of all girls named Bliss (475) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1942, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | #3,344 (1917) | #4,346 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 22 | #4,196 (1943) | #4,595 |
| 1950s | 29 | #4,595 (1953) | #5,430 |
| 1960s | 68 | #4,096 (1964) | #5,359 |
| 1970s | 108 | #4,242 (1978) | #5,473 |
| 1980s | 225 | #1,691 (1986) | #5,428 |
| 1990s | 158 | #4,230 (1990) | #6,210 |
| 2000s | 243 | #3,992 (2006) | #5,565 |
| 2010s | 475 | #2,989 (2011) | #3,372 |
| 2020s | 439 | #2,062 (2023) | #2,520 |
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.
Bliss in 1916
Top girls' names in 1916
Top boys' names in 1916
More about 1916
girls
1,044,334 girls got a published name in 1916; 1 in 208,867 of them was named Bliss, which outranked 14.4% of the 5,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 744 names at #4,417; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
890,080 boys got a published name in 1916; 1 in 89,008 of them was named Bliss, which outranked 43.9% of the 4,535 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,389Yutaka11
- #2,389Zenas11
- #2,389Zigmond11
- #2,543Bliss10
- #2,543Acey10
- #2,543Achille10
- #2,543Agapito10
- #2,730Abelardo9
- #2,730Abron9
- #2,730Albie9
Tied with 186 names at #2,543; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.