Bleu
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 58.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 61 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 375since 1979
Bleu 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 | #5,722 | 21 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #3,104 | 39 |
| 2023 | #4,276 | 33 | #2,441 | 55 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | #2,325 | 61 |
| 2021 | #4,245 | 33 | #2,819 | 44 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | #4,230 | 24 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | — | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #12,287 | 5 | |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | — | |
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| 2008 | — | #11,037 | 6 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | — | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | — | |
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| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | — | |
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| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
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| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bleu! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–2006, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bleu is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#1,367 · 1 in 10,078
- Texas#2,628 · 1 in 35,481
Best ever in a state: #1,106 in Georgia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #1,367 | 5 | 1 in 10,078 |
| Texas | #2,628 | 5 | 1 in 35,481 |
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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 Bleu
- 136 spots since 2024 (#3,104 → #3,240)
- 413 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #3,240)
- 3,826 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #3,240)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2022 at #2,325 (61 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,623 boys born in 2022 were named Bleu (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 70.4% of all boys named Bleu (264) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 13 | #9,788 (2007) | #10,413 |
| 2010s | 88 | #4,230 (2019) | #7,659 |
| 2020s | 264 | #2,325 (2022) | #2,930 |
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.
Bleu in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 48,624 of them was named Bleu, which outranked 75.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,191Zeniyah34
- #4,191Ziana34
- #4,191Ziggy34
- #4,276Bleu33
- #4,276Adelle33
- #4,276Amariyah33
- #4,276Ameliah33
- #4,363Abigale32
- #4,363Adali32
- #4,363Adalind32
Tied with 86 names at #4,276; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 31,101 of them was named Bleu, which outranked 82.8% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,416Wynston56
- #2,416Yanis56
- #2,416Zael56
- #2,441Bleu55
- #2,441Aero55
- #2,441Antwan55
- #2,441Aviraj55
- #2,480Alpha54
- #2,480Antoni54
- #2,480Arion54
Tied with 38 names at #2,441; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.