Blaire
Blaire was given to 802 girls in 2025, #384 among girls’ names; 8,070 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,980 Americans named Blaire and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blaire by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blaire mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Blaire is “a female given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Blair.”
From Scottish Gaelic.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blaire?
#384 among girls’ names, 2025
Blaire rose from #1,172 in 2015 to #384 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.50 per 1,000.
809 babies in 2025, the peak
Blaire peaked in 2025, when 809 babies were given it (802 girls, #384 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 699 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 802 | #384 | 0.50 |
| 2024 | 699 | #446 | 0.43 |
| 2023 | 587 | #518 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 542 | #561 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 463 | #641 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 426 | #673 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 386 | #732 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 321 | #845 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 294 | #910 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 288 | #949 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #1,172 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 196 | #1,241 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 160 | #1,421 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 121 | #1,715 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,703 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,096 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,756 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,892 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,003 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,942 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,592 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,692 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,293 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,283 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,258 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,859 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,346 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,338 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,043 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,735 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,700 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,694 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,598 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,516 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,615 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,503 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 101 | #1,393 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,526 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,339 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 96 | #1,295 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,566 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,584 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,665 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,284 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,061 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,996 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,448 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,559 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,513 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,361 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Blaire a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,070 Americans recorded as Blaire, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 802 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Blaire: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blaire, and how old are they?
7,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,070 Americans ever recorded as Blaire. The median Blaire alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,400 people named Blaire (4,250 women and girls, 150 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 135 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,410 |
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 Blaire born?
The states with the most babies named Blaire are Texas, Michigan and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 101 | #340 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 45 | #200 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 33 | #544 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 33 | #334 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 32 | #348 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #337 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 30 | #344 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 29 | #211 | 1.2× |
| California | 28 | #977 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 26 | #432 | 0.8× |
Where Blaire is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blaire is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1956 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Blaire 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 46,488 babies since 1880, Blaire is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 809 of their 2,691 babies (30%), again the second 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 Blaire
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 Blaire and names like it
- Compare Blaire and BlairBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBlaire peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blaire since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Blaire.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Blaire alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.