Blue
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #2,641 for boys in 2025, 49 births
Given to boys 65.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 950since 1968
Blue 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 | #4,661 | 29 | #2,641 | 49 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #2,595 | 51 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #2,952 | 42 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #2,717 | 48 |
| 2021 | #3,553 | 43 | #2,732 | 46 |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 | #2,846 | 42 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #4,520 | 20 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | — | #5,667 | 12 | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
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| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,540 | 16 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Blue! It came in at #2,576, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Blue is popular in 1968
No state had 5 or more boys named Blue in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Blue
- 46 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #2,641)
- 205 spots since 2020 (#2,846 → #2,641)
- 790 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #2,641)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1969 at #2,415 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 33,782 boys born in 2024 were named Blue (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,859 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,415 in 1969, was only 1 in 137,552 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.3% of all boys named Blue (278) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2014, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24 | #2,415 (1969) | #2,496 |
| 1970s | 108 | #2,540 (1975) | #3,430 |
| 1980s | 40 | #4,940 (1980) | #5,515 |
| 1990s | 105 | #4,019 (1998) | #5,060 |
| 2000s | 160 | #3,536 (2000) | #5,196 |
| 2010s | 235 | #3,259 (2019) | #4,523 |
| 2020s | 278 | #2,595 (2024) | #2,747 |
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.
Blue in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
boys
1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 157,998 of them was named Blue, which outranked 45.7% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,445Yaakov12
- #2,445Yusef12
- #2,445Yvonne12
- #2,576Blue11
- #2,576Aidan11
- #2,576Aj11
- #2,576Albin11
- #2,735Adolf10
- #2,735Amando10
- #2,735Andrei10
Tied with 158 names at #2,576; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.