Blake — #265 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Blake

The Social Security Administration has registered 185,455 babies named Blake between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Blake currently holds the #265 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 6,047 babies received it in a single year. Blake is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19,024 additional births since 1951.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Blake performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 50,109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Blake shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16,718 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Blake in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Blake in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 185,455 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.