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.
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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 38,160 of them was named Blue, which outranked 79.9% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,491Trisha44
- #3,491Zakiyah44
- #3,491Zaniah44
- #3,553Blue43
- #3,553Aqsa43
- #3,553Arisha43
- #3,553Blima43
- #3,614Aaria42
- #3,614Aayra42
- #3,614Addelynn42
Tied with 60 names at #3,553; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 38,032 of them was named Blue, which outranked 80.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,695Supreme47
- #2,695Tavion47
- #2,695Tidus47
- #2,732Blue46
- #2,732Aleister46
- #2,732Baruch46
- #2,732Brant46
- #2,775Aahil45
- #2,775Abubakar45
- #2,775Adem45
Tied with 42 names at #2,732; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.