Blakelynn
Blakelynn was given to 131 girls in 2025, #1,596 among girls’ names; 1,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Blakelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blakelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Blakelynn?
#1,596 among girls’ names, 2025
Blakelynn rose from #4,080 in 2015 to #1,596 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 81.5 per million.
148 babies in 2024, the peak
Blakelynn peaked in 2024, when 148 girls were given it, #1,474 among girls’ names. The 131 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,596 | 81.5 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,474 | 91.3 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,656 | 77.9 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,592 | 81.1 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,806 | 68.3 |
| 2020 | 92 | #2,025 | 56.9 |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,112 | 53.0 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,754 | 36.4 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,694 | 37.1 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,109 | 29.9 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,080 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,477 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,344 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,146 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,826 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,460 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,082 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,962 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,709 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,791 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Blakelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Blakelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Blakelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blakelynn, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,176 Americans ever recorded as Blakelynn. The median Blakelynn alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 60 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,100 |
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.
Where are babies named Blakelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Blakelynn are Missouri, Texas and Georgia, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 12 | #486 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,247 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,099 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #823 | 1.4× |
| Mississippi | 7 | #393 | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,161 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,305 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 6 | #730 | 2.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #764 | 3.1× |
| Arkansas | 5 | #577 | 2.0× |
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 Blakelynn 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,593 babies since 1880, Blakelynn is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 131 of their 230 babies (57%), the most given that year.
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 Blakelynn
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 Blakelynn and names like it
- Compare Blakelynn and BlakelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBlakelynn peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blakelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Blakelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Blakelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.