Blake
Blake is a unisex name: 1,035 girls and 1,080 boys were given it in 2025 (#295 among girls’ names and #316 among boys’, #317 among all names counting both); 206,623 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Blake every year since 2025.
An estimated 198,000 Americans named Blake and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 33.
Blake is among the most evenly shared names of 2025: #2 of 43 unisex names by how close its split is to half and half.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blake by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blake mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Blake is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “black” (blæc) and “pale, fair, shining, white” (blāc).
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.
/bleɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blake?
#316 among boys’ names, 2025
Blake fell from #96 in 2015 to #316 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.2 to 0.63 per 1,000.
6,450 babies in 2012, the peak
Blake peaked in 2012, when 6,450 babies were given it (6,047 boys, #71 among boys’ names). The 2,115 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,080 | #316 | 0.63 |
| 2024 | 1,321 | #265 | 0.77 |
| 2023 | 1,374 | #254 | 0.80 |
| 2022 | 1,581 | #228 | 0.91 |
| 2021 | 1,850 | #205 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,815 | #209 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 2,141 | #183 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 2,466 | #158 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 2,626 | #149 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 3,290 | #127 | 1.7 |
Every recorded year (132)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,234 | #96 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 4,948 | #84 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5,649 | #75 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 6,047 | #71 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5,617 | #73 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 4,703 | #87 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | 4,952 | #89 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5,099 | #90 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5,277 | #88 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 4,537 | #97 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 4,418 | #99 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 4,694 | #95 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 5,275 | #79 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5,358 | #76 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5,356 | #77 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5,143 | #80 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 4,812 | #84 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 4,607 | #85 | 2.4 |
| 1997 | 4,728 | #80 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 4,747 | #84 | 2.5 |
| 1995 | 4,821 | #77 | 2.5 |
| 1994 | 4,879 | #81 | 2.5 |
| 1993 | 4,504 | #83 | 2.3 |
| 1992 | 4,397 | #84 | 2.2 |
| 1991 | 4,275 | #86 | 2.1 |
| 1990 | 4,103 | #91 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 3,521 | #97 | 1.8 |
| 1988 | 3,100 | #103 | 1.6 |
| 1987 | 2,785 | #106 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 2,790 | #101 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 2,922 | #100 | 1.6 |
| 1984 | 2,759 | #103 | 1.5 |
| 1983 | 2,497 | #109 | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 2,351 | #120 | 1.3 |
| 1981 | 1,702 | #159 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 971 | #237 | 0.54 |
| 1979 | 744 | #276 | 0.43 |
| 1978 | 668 | #288 | 0.41 |
| 1977 | 644 | #300 | 0.39 |
| 1976 | 554 | #319 | 0.35 |
| 1975 | 523 | #333 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 419 | #374 | 0.27 |
| 1973 | 427 | #370 | 0.27 |
| 1972 | 462 | #364 | 0.28 |
| 1971 | 476 | #368 | 0.27 |
| 1970 | 526 | #353 | 0.28 |
| 1969 | 520 | #347 | 0.29 |
| 1968 | 404 | #387 | 0.23 |
| 1967 | 422 | #364 | 0.24 |
| 1966 | 400 | #377 | 0.22 |
| 1965 | 445 | #364 | 0.24 |
| 1964 | 472 | #359 | 0.24 |
| 1963 | 569 | #330 | 0.28 |
| 1962 | 546 | #335 | 0.26 |
| 1961 | 512 | #350 | 0.24 |
| 1960 | 431 | #380 | 0.20 |
| 1959 | 411 | #391 | 0.19 |
| 1958 | 366 | #407 | 0.17 |
| 1957 | 288 | #454 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 282 | #450 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 279 | #444 | 0.14 |
| 1954 | 279 | #432 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 207 | #487 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 212 | #479 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 139 | #585 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 131 | #594 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 89 | #728 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 76 | #783 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 86 | #742 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 71 | #788 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 51 | #885 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,005 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 58 | #876 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,008 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,155 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,160 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,126 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,095 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 41 | #998 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,164 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 61 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 50 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 39 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,038 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 12 | #987 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,092 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,233 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 9 | #862 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,225 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 7 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,067 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 6 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 7 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 6 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 8 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 9 | #654 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 5 | #908 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Blake a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 206,623 Americans recorded as Blake, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Blake: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blake, and how old are they?
198,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 206,623 Americans ever recorded as Blake. The median Blake alive today is 23 years old; half are between 14 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 173,524 people named Blake (11,399 women and girls, 162,125 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 184,247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 137 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,910 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,950 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 82,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 48,800 |
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 Blake born?
The states with the most babies named Blake are Texas, California and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 177 | #426 | 0.9× |
| California | 168 | #383 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 127 | #279 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 119 | #210 | 0.8× |
| New York | 111 | #292 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 103 | #179 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 100 | #274 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 81 | #310 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 71 | #130 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 68 | #222 | 0.8× |
Where Blake is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blake is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Blake with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Blake
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 Blake and names like it
- Compare Blake and ChanceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBlake peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blake since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Blake: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Blake.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Blake alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.