Bless
Where Bless comes from
Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Bless.
Bless through the years
- 2000First appearance#7,416 among boys with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
- 2012Mostly boys from hereUntil now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
- 2018Peak, #2,89341 babies named Bless, the most in any year.
- 2025The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births, down to #6,143.
In the dictionary
Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.
Namesakes
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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.