Blessing
#1,225 for girls in 2025, 184 births · #2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
Given to girls 89.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 291 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,343since 1975
Blessing 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 | #1,225 | 184 | #2,798 | 45 |
| 2024 | #1,105 | 221 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #954 | 273 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | #1,206 | 200 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | #1,061 | 237 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #1,042 | 241 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #909 | 291 | #3,347 | 34 |
| 2018 | #1,130 | 216 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #1,141 | 217 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #1,267 | 192 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #1,297 | 185 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #1,308 | 181 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #1,524 | 144 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #1,523 | 145 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #1,804 | 112 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #1,860 | 109 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #1,889 | 111 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #1,927 | 109 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #1,971 | 104 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #2,107 | 92 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #1,835 | 103 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #2,457 | 62 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Blessing! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Blessing is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maine#121 · 1 in 375
- Illinois#716 · 1 in 3,457
- Georgia#718 · 1 in 3,251
- Alabama#723 · 1 in 3,118
- New Jersey#730 · 1 in 3,628
Best ever in a state: #121 in Maine, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #121 | 8 | 1 in 375 |
| Illinois | #716 | 13 | 1 in 3,457 |
| Georgia | #718 | 14 | 1 in 3,251 |
| Alabama | #723 | 6 | 1 in 3,118 |
| New Jersey | #730 | 10 | 1 in 3,628 |
| North Carolina | #733 | 13 | 1 in 3,555 |
| Michigan | #734 | 10 | 1 in 3,575 |
| Pennsylvania | #763 | 12 | 1 in 3,861 |
| Maryland | #769 | 6 | 1 in 3,471 |
| Indiana | #826 | 7 | 1 in 4,020 |
| Ohio | #1,025 | 8 | 1 in 5,850 |
| Texas | #1,116 | 25 | 1 in 6,535 |
| New York | #1,175 | 12 | 1 in 6,551 |
| California | #2,189 | 9 | 1 in 18,406 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Blessing
- 120 spots since 2024 (#1,105 → #1,225)
- 183 spots since 2020 (#1,042 → #1,225)
- 72 spots since 2015 (#1,297 → #1,225)
- Biggest jump: 252 spots in 2023 (#1,206 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2024 (#954 → #1,105)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2019 at #909 (291 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2019–2023
- Highest: 1 in 5,768 girls born in 2019 were named Blessing (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,735 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.3% of all girls named Blessing (1,792) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 13 | #7,313 (1979) | #8,190 |
| 1980s | 62 | #5,836 (1989) | #8,467 |
| 1990s | 257 | #3,116 (1998) | #4,371 |
| 2000s | 863 | #1,835 (2004) | #2,163 |
| 2010s | 1,792 | #909 (2019) | #1,376 |
| 2020s | 1,356 | #954 (2023) | #1,099 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Blessing in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 7,331 of them was named Blessing, which outranked 93.8% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,099Xochitl223
- #1,103Meera222
- #1,103Zola222
- #1,105Blessing221
- #1,105Ayana221
- #1,105Colbie221
- #1,105Juana221
- #1,113Leylani220
- #1,114Chiara219
- #1,114Giavanna219
Tied with 7 names at #1,105; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 29,201 of them was named Blessing, which outranked 83.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,345Uzziah60
- #2,345Yulian60
- #2,345Zian60
- #2,370Blessing59
- #2,370Aayansh59
- #2,370Adair59
- #2,370Alastair59
- #2,393Arya58
- #2,393Braeden58
- #2,393Braiden58
Tied with 22 names at #2,370; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.