Blane
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #15,491 · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1958 · 113 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,448since 1914
Blane over time
Rank among boys' names. Blane has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,949 | 27 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,455 | 33 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,802 | 29 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,442 | 23 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,780 | 20 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,570 | 30 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,114 | 25 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,994 | 39 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,006 | 39 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,783 | 43 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,966 | 39 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,370 | 54 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,336 | 54 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,326 | 55 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,317 | 55 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,010 | 68 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,889 | 76 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,802 | 82 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #1,760 | 84 |
| 2006 | — | #1,919 | 70 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #1,659 | 81 |
| 2004 | — | #1,467 | 93 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,478 | 88 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,384 | 95 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,368 | 93 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,497 | 81 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,503 | 75 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,642 | 63 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,535 | 67 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,413 | 74 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,559 | 60 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,421 | 68 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,539 | 59 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,472 | 62 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,382 | 67 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,353 | 68 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,452 | 57 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,263 | 66 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,218 | 63 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,511 | 44 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,485 | 45 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,630 | 36 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,594 | 37 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,441 | 44 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,629 | 36 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,593 | 37 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,867 | 29 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,913 | 26 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,063 | 23 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,711 | 30 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,787 | 27 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,277 | 18 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,216 | 18 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,819 | 24 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,597 | 30 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,794 | 24 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,492 | 29 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,758 | 20 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,149 | 42 | |
| 1965 | — | #897 | 67 | |
| 1964 | — | #881 | 75 | |
| 1963 | — | #785 | 94 | |
| 1962 | — | #802 | 89 | |
| 1961 | — | #797 | 91 | |
| 1960 | — | #726 | 112 | |
| 1959 | — | #718 | 114 | |
| 1958 | — | #703 | 113 | |
| 1957 | — | #708 | 114 | |
| 1956 | — | #727 | 102 | |
| 1955 | — | #760 | 92 | |
| 1954 | — | #868 | 71 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,033 | 49 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,094 | 44 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,295 | 32 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,538 | 23 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,337 | 11 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
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| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #2,738 | 8 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
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| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Blane! It came in at #2,457, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Blane is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#628 · 1 in 7,170
- Texas#1,156 · 1 in 24,528
- California#1,511 · 1 in 37,231
Best ever in a state: #217 in Hawaii, 1958.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #628 | 5 | 1 in 7,170 |
| Texas | #1,156 | 6 | 1 in 24,528 |
| California | #1,511 | 6 | 1 in 37,231 |
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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 Blane
- 494 spots since 2024 (#3,455 → #3,949)
- 379 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #3,949)
- 983 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #3,949)
- Biggest jump: 165 spots in 1954 (#1,033 → #868)
- Biggest drop: 252 spots in 1966 (#897 → #1,149)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1958 at #703 (113 births)
- Births halved by 1966, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1954–1965
- Highest: 1 in 18,724 boys born in 1959 were named Blane (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #703 in 1958, was only 1 in 18,782 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.0% of all boys named Blane (843) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 41 | #2,423 (1917) | #2,950 |
| 1920s | 45 | #3,247 (1929) | #3,644 |
| 1930s | 58 | #2,738 (1933) | #3,193 |
| 1940s | 43 | #2,251 (1947) | #2,771 |
| 1950s | 754 | #703 (1958) | #944 |
| 1960s | 654 | #726 (1960) | #1,057 |
| 1970s | 249 | #1,597 (1971) | #1,904 |
| 1980s | 465 | #1,218 (1987) | #1,482 |
| 1990s | 663 | #1,353 (1990) | #1,482 |
| 2000s | 843 | #1,368 (2001) | #1,622 |
| 2010s | 471 | #2,010 (2010) | #2,722 |
| 2020s | 162 | #3,455 (2024) | #4,000 |
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.
Blane in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 41,071 of them was named Blane, which outranked 80.4% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,452Weldon46
- #1,452Wilmer46
- #1,452Yisroel46
- #1,485Blane45
- #1,485Abdullah45
- #1,485Antron45
- #1,485Basil45
- #1,504Ammon44
- #1,504Chrisopher44
- #1,504Clemente44
Tied with 18 names at #1,485; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.