Blythe

#2,051 for girls in 2025, 92 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 95.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
1974 · 109 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
5,168
since 1897

Blythe over time

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201988peak #1,076, 1974peak #2,872, 1941girlsboys
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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#2,05192#7,67910
2024#1,870107#10,9386
2023#1,850108
2022#2,03495#10,8636
2021#1,99197#8,8258
2020#2,10087#7,50210
2019#1,528141#10,8036
2018#1,97899#10,7606
2017#1,779117#9,6967
2016#1,386168#10,7446
2015#1,493153#10,6446
2014#1,371169#8,1309
2013#1,338174#9,6557
2012#1,396165#8,8648
2011#1,886106#12,2875
2010#2,23786#12,2315
2009#2,24487#8,3109
2008#2,44178
2007#2,82264#10,9216
2006#2,72865#8,7328
2005#2,27879#8,2998
2004#2,30975#8,9277
2003#2,32172#9,5816
2002#2,22874#7,0559
2001#2,37966
2000#2,50860#5,92011
1999#2,52756#9,9125
1998#3,11640#7,5607
1997#2,32857#7,2817
1996#2,79643
1995#2,65046#6,9927
1994#2,58548#8,8005
1993#2,88241#8,7005
1992#2,51350
1991#2,24258#7,2716
1990#1,90573#8,1175
1989#2,30451
1988#1,96861
1987#1,67872
1986#1,71768
1985#1,47384
1984#1,33291
1983#1,66566
1982#1,55176
1981#1,64170
1980#2,12848
1979#1,83258#6,0565
1978#1,61466
1977#1,73659
1976#1,67758
1975#1,52766
1974#1,076109
1973#1,64755
1972#2,22234
1971#2,59928
1970#1,78150
1969#2,76823
1968#2,87420
1967#2,43225
1966#2,83919
1965#2,34526
1964#3,00018
1963#2,30627#4,0485
1962#1,98934
1961#2,47424
1960#2,57322
1959#2,39523
1958#2,37623
1957#2,27624
1956#2,24924#3,9425
1955#2,83916
1954#2,29522
1953#2,23622
1952#1,89228
1951#2,81014#3,7145
1950#2,05322
1949#2,27419
1948#3,5939
1947#2,63715
1946#2,88012
1945#3,3888#3,3385
1944#2,28715
1943
1942#4,6225
1941#3,9546#2,8727
1940#3,2088
1939
1938
1937
1936
1935#2,57511
1934
1933#3,4067
1932#3,2748
1931#4,3315
1930#3,6587
1929#4,5705
1928#3,7437#4,1515
1927#3,8757
1926#4,3066
1925
1924#4,4346
1923#3,12510
1922#2,95811#4,3075
1921#4,4646
1920
1919#3,4528
1918#3,8697#4,1795
1917#2,87910#3,9815
1916
1915#2,52611#3,8255
1914
1913
1912#2,9795
1911
1910
1909
1908
1907
1906
1905
1904#1,6596
1903
1902
1901
1900
1899
1898
1897#1,3856
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First appearance
1897

The first year at least five girls were named Blythe! It came in at #1,385, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1898–1903, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Blythe
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 181 spots since 2024 (#1,870#2,051)
  • 49 spots since 2020 (#2,100#2,051)
  • 558 spots since 2015 (#1,493#2,051)
Rise & fade · girls
77 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1897
  • Peaked 1974 at #1,076 (109 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,085
  • Highest: 1 in 10,085 girls born in 2013 were named Blythe (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 17,470 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,076 in 1974, was only 1 in 13,464 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 26.7% of all girls named Blythe (1,378) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1942
  • Mostly boys until 1941, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#1,385 (1897)#1,385
1900s6#1,659 (1904)#1,659
1910s41#2,526 (1915)#3,141
1920s58#2,958 (1922)#3,934
1930s38#2,575 (1935)#3,449
1940s97#2,274 (1949)#3,205
1950s218#1,892 (1952)#2,342
1960s238#1,989 (1962)#2,560
1970s583#1,076 (1974)#1,771
1980s687#1,332 (1984)#1,746
1990s512#1,905 (1990)#2,554
2000s720#2,228 (2002)#2,426
2010s1,378#1,338 (2013)#1,639
2020s586#1,850 (2023)#1,983

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.

Blythe in 1988

girls
#1,968
61 births · 1 in 29,194 girls

Top girls' names in 1988

  1. #1Jessica51,556
  2. #2Ashley49,977
  3. #3Amanda39,459
  4. #4Sarah28,374
  5. #5Jennifer27,893
  6. #6Brittany26,816
  7. #7Stephanie22,843
  8. #8Samantha20,700
  9. #9Nicole20,315
  10. #10Elizabeth20,042
  11. #1,968Blythe61
More about 1988

girls

1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 29,194 of them was named Blythe, which outranked 85.8% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Blythe
  1. #1,952Shawnna62
  2. #1,952Sherrell62
  3. #1,952Tyeshia62
  4. #1,968Blythe61
  5. #1,968Andreina61
  6. #1,968Annabelle61
  7. #1,968Dasha61
  8. #1,986Ambar60
  9. #1,986Benita60
  10. #1,986Bettina60

Tied with 17 names at #1,968; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1987
Risers
  1. 2,890Jalissa#3,857#967
  2. 2,381Taja#3,101#720
  3. 1,710Whitley#2,156#446
  4. 1,225Jalisa#1,662#437
  5. 883Jaleesa#1,227#344
Fallers
  1. 620Channing#590#1,210
  2. 346Denisse#954#1,300
  3. 319Jeana#966#1,285
  4. 314Eliana#826#1,140
  5. 311Nakia#893#1,204

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

See the top 100 for 1988