Blaze
Blaze was given to 326 boys in 2025, #781 among boys’ names; 9,110 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,940 Americans named Blaze and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blaze by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blaze mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Blaze is “a male given name from Latin.”
Variant of Blaise.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blaze?
#781 among boys’ names, 2025
Blaze fell from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.18 to 0.19 per 1,000.
373 babies in 2022, the peak
Blaze peaked in 2022, when 373 babies were given it (339 boys, #753 among boys’ names). The 353 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 95% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 326 | #781 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 336 | #757 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 336 | #767 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 339 | #753 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 322 | #774 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 271 | #842 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 244 | #898 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 260 | #851 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 281 | #809 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 263 | #855 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 354 | #707 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 302 | #773 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 331 | #711 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 305 | #749 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 265 | #822 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 251 | #842 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 269 | #822 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 245 | #866 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 235 | #876 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 228 | #871 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 214 | #860 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 219 | #818 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 252 | #727 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 217 | #794 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 224 | #766 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 179 | #878 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 133 | #1,039 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 101 | #1,213 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,187 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,301 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,040 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,165 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,182 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,177 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,301 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 53 | #1,533 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 51 | #1,477 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 44 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,076 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,167 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,882 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,842 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,945 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,801 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,286 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,475 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,465 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,684 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,040 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,166 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,400 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Blaze a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,110 Americans recorded as Blaze, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 27 girls and 326 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Blaze: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blaze, and how old are they?
8,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,110 Americans ever recorded as Blaze. The median Blaze alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,338 people named Blaze (454 women and girls, 5,884 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,980 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 75 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 957 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,180 |
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 Blaze born?
The states with the most babies named Blaze are Texas, Georgia and California, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #701 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 32 | #370 | 0.8× |
| California | 30 | #808 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 20 | #757 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #706 | 1.3× |
| New York | 12 | #1,002 | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 12 | #422 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 11 | #758 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 11 | #425 | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 10 | #456 | 3.0× |
Where Blaze is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blaze is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1921 it was given 5.3 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 Blaze 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 12,631 babies since 1880, Blaze is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 353 of their 456 babies (77%), 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 Blaze
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 Blaze and names like it
- Compare Blaze and BlaizeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBlaze peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blaze since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Blaze: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Blaze.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Blaze alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.