Bless — #3490 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bless

The Social Security Administration has registered 476 babies named Bless between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bless currently holds the #3490 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 41 babies received it in a single year. Bless is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 310 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bless performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 220 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Bless shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 48 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Bless in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bless 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 476 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.