Blakely

Where Blakely comes from

Variant of Blakeley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Blakely
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #7,471 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Blakely Mattern born
    American soccer player
  3. 1991
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2023
    Peak, #156
    1,860 babies named Blakely — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Blakely Mattern · American soccer player, born 1988

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.