Blaise
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #1,038 for boys in 2025, 213 births
Given to boys 90.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 214 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,768since 1913
Blaise 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 | #3,517 | 43 | #1,038 | 213 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | #1,106 | 194 |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | #1,080 | 199 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 | #1,015 | 219 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #1,006 | 217 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #935 | 235 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | #927 | 235 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | #1,012 | 204 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #910 | 234 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #904 | 238 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #808 | 283 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 | #851 | 262 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #904 | 230 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #909 | 227 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #935 | 213 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #949 | 211 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #969 | 206 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,031 | 184 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #990 | 197 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #985 | 188 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #999 | 172 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #884 | 196 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #804 | 216 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #803 | 214 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | #805 | 208 |
| 2000 | #4,527 | 26 | #942 | 161 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #889 | 169 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #900 | 160 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #966 | 136 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | #979 | 128 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #1,069 | 110 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | #1,002 | 123 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #1,015 | 117 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #1,221 | 85 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #1,162 | 90 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #1,086 | 96 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #1,057 | 97 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #1,070 | 86 |
| 1987 | — | #1,337 | 55 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | — | #1,181 | 63 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #1,534 | 39 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,899 | 29 |
| 1980 | — | #1,765 | 32 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,570 | 37 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,616 | 34 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,780 | 29 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,828 | 27 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,835 | 26 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,886 | 24 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,653 | 28 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,597 | 30 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,615 | 28 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,492 | 29 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,788 | 20 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,364 | 31 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,401 | 30 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,064 | 48 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,070 | 50 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,069 | 51 | |
| 1962 | — | #984 | 60 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,013 | 59 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,008 | 58 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,004 | 59 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,277 | 36 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,278 | 37 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,032 | 53 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,219 | 38 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,137 | 43 | |
| 1953 | — | #989 | 53 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,430 | 28 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,462 | 26 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,434 | 26 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,872 | 16 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,346 | 29 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,482 | 25 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,759 | 17 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,080 | 12 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,910 | 15 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,523 | 9 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,903 | 14 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,894 | 14 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #1,901 | 14 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,992 | 13 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #2,387 | 12 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,950 | 9 | |
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Blaise! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Blaise is popular in 1960
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#423 · 1 in 9,987
- New York#631 · 1 in 16,313
- California#1,000 · 1 in 37,177
Best ever in a state: #132 in Hawaii, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | #423 | 12 | 1 in 9,987 |
| New York | #631 | 11 | 1 in 16,313 |
| California | #1,000 | 5 | 1 in 37,177 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Blaise
- 68 spots since 2024 (#1,106 → #1,038)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#935 → #1,038)
- 230 spots since 2015 (#808 → #1,038)
- Biggest jump: 441 spots in 1953 (#1,430 → #989)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 1954 (#989 → #1,137)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2002 at #803 (214 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1996–2007
- Highest: 1 in 6,773 boys born in 2015 were named Blaise (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,019 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #803 in 2002, was only 1 in 9,072 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.7% of all boys named Blaise (2,337) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 43 | #2,423 (1917) | #3,152 |
| 1920s | 60 | #2,387 (1928) | #3,161 |
| 1930s | 82 | #1,901 (1938) | #2,687 |
| 1940s | 160 | #1,346 (1948) | #1,916 |
| 1950s | 399 | #989 (1953) | #1,226 |
| 1960s | 436 | #984 (1962) | #1,225 |
| 1970s | 281 | #1,570 (1979) | #1,754 |
| 1980s | 537 | #1,057 (1989) | #1,418 |
| 1990s | 1,214 | #889 (1999) | #1,029 |
| 2000s | 1,942 | #803 (2002) | #921 |
| 2010s | 2,337 | #808 (2015) | #911 |
| 2020s | 1,277 | #935 (2020) | #1,030 |
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.
Blaise in 1960
Top boys' names in 1960
More about 1960
boys
2,132,320 boys got a published name in 1960; 1 in 36,764 of them was named Blaise, which outranked 78.1% of the 4,598 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #996Regan59
- #996Robb59
- #996Stevan59
- #1,008Blaise58
- #1,008Aurelio58
- #1,008Bertram58
- #1,008Carnell58
- #1,017Arden57
- #1,017Davey57
- #1,017Davie57
Tied with 8 names at #1,008; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.