Blaze — #761 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Blaze

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,175 babies named Blaze between 1921 and 2024, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Blaze currently holds the #761 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 353 babies received it in a single year. Blaze is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 575 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Blaze performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,854 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Blaze shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 735 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Blaze in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Blaze 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 8,175 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.