Blakely
Blakely was given to 1,638 girls in 2025, #191 among girls’ names; 22,036 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,800 Americans named Blakely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blakely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blakely mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Blakely is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Blakeley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blakely?
#191 among girls’ names, 2025
Blakely rose from #357 in 2015 to #191 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.52 to 1.0 per 1,000.
1,905 babies in 2024, the peak
Blakely peaked in 2024, when 1,905 babies were given it (1,892 girls, #158 among girls’ names). The 1,646 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,638 | #191 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,892 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,860 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 1,737 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,837 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,713 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,609 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,308 | #250 | 0.77 |
| 2017 | 1,230 | #259 | 0.71 |
| 2016 | 1,178 | #270 | 0.66 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 921 | #357 | 0.52 |
| 2014 | 777 | #412 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 683 | #450 | 0.39 |
| 2012 | 544 | #546 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 278 | #929 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 231 | #1,077 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 176 | #1,353 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,092 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,571 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,707 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,759 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,810 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,889 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,973 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,635 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,591 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,320 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,658 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,882 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,030 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,289 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,168 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,772 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,145 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,635 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,388 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,768 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,998 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,746 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,140 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,499 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,493 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,546 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,288 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,344 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,455 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,273 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,629 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,560 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,577 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Blakely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,036 Americans recorded as Blakely, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 1,638 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Blakely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blakely, and how old are they?
21,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 22,036 Americans ever recorded as Blakely. The median Blakely alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 10,127 people named Blakely (9,295 women and girls, 832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 203 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 819 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18,500 |
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 Blakely born?
The states with the most babies named Blakely are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 138 | #251 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 89 | #97 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 75 | #253 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 67 | #46 | 2.7× |
| Ohio | 66 | #164 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 59 | #95 | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 56 | #43 | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 56 | #193 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 54 | #158 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 53 | #139 | 1.8× |
Where Blakely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blakely is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1920 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 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 Blakely 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 25,807 babies since 1880, Blakely is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,646 of their 1,863 babies (88%), 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 Blakely
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 Blakely and names like it
- Compare Blakely and BlakeleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBlakely peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blakely since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Blakely: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Blakely.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Blakely alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.