Blakley — #2755 US unisex name
706 babies named Blakley in U.S. Social Security records since 1987, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 84% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Blakley was born in this single decade.
65 babies were named Blakley in 2021 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Blakley
The Social Security Administration has registered 706 babies named Blakley between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Blakley currently holds the #2755 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 65 babies received it in a single year. Blakley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 49 additional births since 1963.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Blakley performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 286 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Blakley shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Blakley in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Blakley 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 706 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.
Blakley at a glance
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Current rank
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Blakley popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1987
- Peak year (2021)
- 65
- Annual births at peak — across 38 years of records
Currently ranks #2755 among girls.
706 total births across 38 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2021 with 65 births in a single year.
Blakley popularity over time — boys
49 total births recorded since 1963 (Blakley as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Blakley accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Blakley by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 286 births that decade — 41% of Blakley's all-time total
Blakley decade highlights
- Peak decade 286 births
- Runner-up 266 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Blakley's strongest decade
286 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Blakley by state
Where Blakley concentrates geographically — total births since 1987
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 35 | 5.0% |
| #2 | Tennessee | | 25 | 3.5% |
| #3 | Indiana | | 17 | 2.4% |
| #4 | Kentucky | | 11 | 1.6% |
| #5 | North Carolina | | 10 | 1.4% |
| #6 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #7 | Missouri | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #8 | Oklahoma | | 5 | 0.7% |
35 of 706 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 5.0% of nationwide
- Tennessee 3.5% of nationwide
- Indiana 2.4% of nationwide
- Kentucky 1.6% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 5.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1987–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.