Blaise
Blaise is given to both girls and boys: 43 girls and 213 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,529 among girls’ names and #1,038 among boys’, #1,883 among all names counting both); 9,656 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,000 Americans named Blaise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blaise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blaise mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Blaise is “a male given name from French.”
Borrowed from Old French Blaise in the Middle Ages and revived partly due to the modern French equivalent, from Latin Blasius. Doublet of Blasius.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blaise?
#1,038 among boys’ names, 2025
Blaise fell from #808 in 2015 to #1,038 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.12 per 1,000.
307 babies in 2015, the peak
Blaise peaked in 2015, when 307 babies were given it (283 boys, #808 among boys’ names). The 256 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 213 | #1,038 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 194 | #1,106 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 199 | #1,080 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,016 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 217 | #1,009 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 235 | #936 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 235 | #927 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 204 | #1,012 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 234 | #913 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 238 | #904 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 283 | #808 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 262 | #851 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 230 | #904 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 227 | #909 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 213 | #935 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 211 | #949 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 206 | #969 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 184 | #1,031 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 197 | #990 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 188 | #986 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 172 | #998 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 196 | #883 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 216 | #803 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 214 | #802 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 208 | #804 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 161 | #941 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 169 | #890 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 160 | #900 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 136 | #964 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 128 | #977 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,067 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 123 | #998 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 117 | #1,011 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,083 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 97 | #1,054 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 86 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,181 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 39 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 39 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,416 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,899 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,768 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,784 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,598 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 28 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 29 | #1,496 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 20 | #1,791 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 31 | #1,364 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,402 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,068 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,071 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,069 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 60 | #986 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 59 | #1,013 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 58 | #1,009 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 59 | #1,003 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,276 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,281 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,034 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,220 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,136 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 53 | #988 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,433 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,465 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,436 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,872 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,349 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,484 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,767 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,412 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,088 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,919 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,548 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,915 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,906 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,909 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,003 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,005 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,631 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,540 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,951 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,917 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #2,966 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,397 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,782 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,240 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,437 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,867 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Blaise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,656 Americans recorded as Blaise, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Blaise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blaise, and how old are they?
9,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 9,656 Americans ever recorded as Blaise. The median Blaise alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 7,702 people named Blaise (660 women and girls, 7,042 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,684 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 37 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 527 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 415 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,400 |
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 Blaise born?
The states with the most babies named Blaise are Texas, New York and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,303 | 0.6× |
| New York | 13 | #957 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,014 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #800 | 1.7× |
| California | 10 | #1,605 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #519 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 9 | #861 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #715 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 9 | #739 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 9 | #677 | 0.3× |
Where Blaise is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blaise is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1913 it was given 2.9 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 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 Blaise 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 12,609 babies since 1880, Blaise is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 256 of their 323 babies (79%), 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 Blaise
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 Blaise and names like it
- Compare Blaise and BlaizeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBlaise peaked in 2015.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blaise since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Blaise: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Blaise.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Blaise alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.