Blade

#3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births

Peak · boys
1996 · 100 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,136
since 1982

Blade over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Blade has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202009peak #1,167, 1996boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,45033
2024#4,20025
2023#4,22025
2022#3,10039
2021#3,91227
2020#3,73428
2019#3,71629
2018#2,99439
2017#4,46622
2016#3,44132
2015#2,72244
2014#3,15435
2013#2,66844
2012#2,29256
2011#2,34654
2010#2,82642
2009#2,32056
2008#2,54249
2007#2,23559
2006#2,12661
2005#1,80172
2004#1,95362
2003#1,46689
2002#1,223112
2001#1,283103
2000#1,34195
1999#1,24999
1998#1,34788
1997#1,41377
1996#1,167100
1995#1,23289
1994#1,19293
1993#1,34072
1992#1,73149
1991#2,22732
1990#3,16619
1989#2,69023
1988#4,16211
1987#4,23910
1986#3,26814
1985#3,40113
1984#4,5528
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First appearance
1982

The first year at least five boys were named Blade! It came in at #5,003, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Blade is popular in 2009

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNEMissouri: #807 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 6,692 boysMOKentucky: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedOKLouisiana: #799 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 5,008 boysLAMississippi: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedHITexas: #2,255 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 37,292 boysTXFlorida: fewer than 5 boys named Blade, so not publishedFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Louisiana#799 · 1 in 5,008
  2. Missouri#807 · 1 in 6,692
  3. Texas#2,255 · 1 in 37,292

Best ever in a state: #359 in Oklahoma, 1994.

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Louisiana#79951 in 5,008
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Texas#2,25551 in 37,292
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See more about Blade
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 750 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #3,450)
  • 284 spots since 2020 (#3,734 → #3,450)
  • 728 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #3,450)
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1982
  • Peaked 1996 at #1,167 (100 births)
  • Births halved by 2008, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 17,335
  • Highest: 1 in 17,335 boys born in 2002 were named Blade (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,167 in 1996, was only 1 in 18,943 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 35.5% of all boys named Blade (758) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s86#2,690 (1989)#3,902
1990s718#1,167 (1996)#1,606
2000s758#1,223 (2002)#1,829
2010s397#2,292 (2012)#3,063
2020s177#3,100 (2022)#3,769

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.

Blade in 2009

boys
#2,320
56 births · 1 in 35,421 boys

Top boys' names in 2009

  1. #1Jacob21,204
  2. #2Ethan19,858
  3. #3Michael18,964
  4. #4Alexander18,254
  5. #5William17,937
  6. #6Joshua17,671
  7. #7Daniel17,564
  8. #8Jayden17,316
  9. #9Noah17,262
  10. #10Christopher16,368
  11. #2,320Blade56
More about 2009

boys

1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 35,421 of them was named Blade, which outranked 84.0% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Blade
  1. #2,287Treveon57
  2. #2,287Tyrin57
  3. #2,287Tyrique57
  4. #2,320Blade56
  5. #2,320Ahmari56
  6. #2,320Ayub56
  7. #2,320Brando56
  8. #2,348Arvin55
  9. #2,348Aspen55
  10. #2,348Bear55

Tied with 27 names at #2,320; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. ↑ 951Knox#1,655 → #704
  2. ↑ 510Kellan#1,133 → #623
  3. ↑ 462Jaxen#1,329 → #867
  4. ↑ 422Bentley#936 → #514
  5. ↑ 354Archer#1,037 → #683
Fallers
  1. ↓ 493Yurem#995 → #1,488
  2. ↓ 222Cordell#786 → #1,008
  3. ↓ 212Shamar#926 → #1,138
  4. ↓ 201Trevin#797 → #998
  5. ↓ 198Glenn#865 → #1,063

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

See the top 100 for 2009 →