Blane
Blane was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,962 among boys’ names; 4,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,830 Americans named Blane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 21 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Blane?
#3,962 among boys’ names, 2025
Blane fell from #2,971 in 2015 to #3,962 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 15.8 per million.
114 babies in 1957, the peak
Blane peaked in 1957, when 114 boys were given it, #707 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,962 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,463 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,807 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,449 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,795 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,582 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,122 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 39 | #2,999 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,013 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,791 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,971 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,372 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,338 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,329 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 55 | #2,322 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,014 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 76 | #1,893 | 38.3 |
| 2008 | 82 | #1,805 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 84 | #1,760 | 40.5 |
| 2006 | 70 | #1,919 | 34.1 |
| 2005 | 81 | #1,658 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,465 | 46.9 |
| 2003 | 88 | #1,477 | 44.5 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,383 | 48.9 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,366 | 47.9 |
| 2000 | 81 | #1,496 | 41.2 |
| 1999 | 75 | #1,502 | 39.1 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,642 | 33.0 |
| 1997 | 67 | #1,533 | 35.5 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,411 | 39.1 |
| 1995 | 60 | #1,555 | 31.5 |
| 1994 | 68 | #1,417 | 35.2 |
| 1993 | 59 | #1,535 | 30.1 |
| 1992 | 62 | #1,467 | 31.0 |
| 1991 | 67 | #1,380 | 33.2 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,348 | 33.1 |
| 1989 | 57 | #1,449 | 28.5 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,259 | 34.5 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,217 | 33.7 |
| 1986 | 44 | #1,510 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 45 | #1,487 | 24.3 |
| 1984 | 36 | #1,633 | 19.9 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,598 | 20.6 |
| 1982 | 44 | #1,441 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,633 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,595 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 29 | #1,872 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,923 | 15.8 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,070 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,713 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,791 | 17.3 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,284 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,228 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,826 | 14.8 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,599 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,800 | 12.9 |
| 1969 | 29 | #1,497 | 16.2 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,286 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,763 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,151 | 23.5 |
| 1965 | 67 | #899 | 36.0 |
| 1964 | 75 | #881 | 37.6 |
| 1963 | 94 | #785 | 46.3 |
| 1962 | 89 | #802 | 43.0 |
| 1961 | 91 | #797 | 42.8 |
| 1960 | 112 | #725 | 52.5 |
| 1959 | 114 | #718 | 53.4 |
| 1958 | 113 | #703 | 53.2 |
| 1957 | 114 | #707 | 52.8 |
| 1956 | 102 | #726 | 48.2 |
| 1955 | 92 | #759 | 44.7 |
| 1954 | 71 | #868 | 34.8 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,033 | 24.8 |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,095 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,299 | 17.0 |
| 1950 | 23 | #1,539 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,350 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,627 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,257 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,574 | 3.1 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,177 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,147 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,214 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,577 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,598 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,300 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,760 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,870 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,816 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,798 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,268 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,392 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,782 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,420 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,508 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,565 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,865 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,904 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,133 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,438 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #3,964 | 5.6 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,473 | 12.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Blane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Blane has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Blane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blane, and how old are they?
3,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 4,459 Americans ever recorded as Blane. The median Blane alive today is 33 years old; half are between 21 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 3,754 people named Blane (100 women and girls, 3,654 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 890 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 419 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 844 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
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 Blane born?
The states with the most babies named Blane are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 398 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 170 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 164 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 85 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 71 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 50 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 44 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 41 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Blane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blane is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1914 it was given 2.0 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 Blane 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 43,369 babies since 1880, Blane is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 335 babies (8.1%), again the third 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 Blane
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Mikeal | 2,405 |
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 Blane and names like it
- Compare Blane and BlaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBlane peaked in 1957.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blane since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Blane.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Blane alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.