Blaise

Where Blaise comes from

Borrowed from Old French Blaise in the Middle Ages and revived partly due to the modern French equivalent, from Latin Blasius. Doublet of Blasius.
— Wiktionary's entry for Blaise
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1623
    Blaise Pascal born
    French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
  2. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,821 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1951
    Blaise Compaoré born
    President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
  4. 2002
    Peak, #803
    214 babies named Blaise — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Blaise Pascal · French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher, 1623–1662
  • Blaise Compaoré · President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014, born 1951
  • Blaise Matuidi · French footballer, born 1987
  • Blaise Cendrars · Swiss writer, 1887–1961
  • Blaise Nkufo · Swiss footballer, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.