Blenda
Blenda was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 1,022 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blenda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Blenda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,707, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1951, the peak
Blenda peaked in 1951, when 57 girls were given it, #1,225 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #13,707 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,533 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,345 | 3.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,596 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,438 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,012 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,395 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,647 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,081 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,392 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 14 | #4,169 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,409 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,560 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,864 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,209 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,325 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,328 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,755 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,522 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,378 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,474 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,171 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,969 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,576 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,601 | 9.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,383 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,808 | 17.6 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,324 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,881 | 16.4 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,741 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,708 | 18.1 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,713 | 17.8 |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,225 | 31.7 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,498 | 22.2 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,423 | 24.5 |
| 1948 | 40 | #1,462 | 23.6 |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,488 | 22.6 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,440 | 23.5 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,593 | 20.7 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,700 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,753 | 17.2 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,670 | 18.5 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,654 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,211 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,163 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,409 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,852 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,131 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,525 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,637 | 4.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,166 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,105 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,207 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,006 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,268 | 7.8 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,517 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,360 | 5.1 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,889 | 17.9 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,825 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,628 | 22.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,735 | 19.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Blenda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Blenda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Blenda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blenda, and how old are they?
An estimated 699 Americans named Blenda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 896 people named Blenda (894 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 777 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 75,018 babies since 1880, Blenda is the second most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 110 babies recorded by SSA was a Blenda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Blenda
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 Blenda and names like it
- Compare Blenda and BelindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBlenda peaked in 1951.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blenda since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Blenda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Blenda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.