Blade
Blade was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,453 among boys’ names; 2,136 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,090 Americans named Blade and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blade by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Blade?
#3,453 among boys’ names, 2025
Blade fell from #2,723 in 2015 to #3,453 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.0 to 19.3 per million.
112 babies in 2002, the peak
Blade peaked in 2002, when 112 boys were given it, #1,220 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,453 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,210 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,235 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,105 | 22.3 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,922 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,737 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,726 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 39 | #2,998 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,482 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,446 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,723 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,158 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,669 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,297 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,350 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,827 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 56 | #2,321 | 28.2 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,546 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,239 | 28.4 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,127 | 29.7 |
| 2005 | 72 | #1,801 | 36.0 |
| 2004 | 62 | #1,952 | 31.2 |
| 2003 | 89 | #1,464 | 45.1 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,220 | 57.7 |
| 2001 | 103 | #1,279 | 53.0 |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,339 | 48.4 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,246 | 51.6 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,346 | 46.0 |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,411 | 40.8 |
| 1996 | 100 | #1,165 | 52.8 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,228 | 46.8 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,189 | 48.1 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,337 | 36.7 |
| 1992 | 49 | #1,726 | 24.5 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,229 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,175 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,694 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,179 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,267 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,280 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,420 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,593 | 4.4 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,070 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Blade a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Blade has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Blade: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blade, and how old are they?
2,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,136 Americans ever recorded as Blade. The median Blade alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,840 people named Blade (20 women and girls, 1,820 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 519 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 419 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Blade born?
The states with the most babies named Blade are Texas, Ohio and Louisiana, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 90 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 83 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Indiana | 56 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 43 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 32 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Blade with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,437 babies since 1880, Blade is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 43 babies (77%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Blade
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Blade and names like it
- Compare Blade and BlaydeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBlade peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blade since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Blade.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Blade alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.