Blessed — #8614 US unisex name
251 babies named Blessed in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 51% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Blessed was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Blessed in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Blessed
The Social Security Administration has registered 251 babies named Blessed between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Blessed currently holds the #8614 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Blessed is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 191 additional births since 2001.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Blessed performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 102 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Blessed shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Blessed 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 251 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.
Blessed at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Blessed popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1993
- Peak year (2015)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
Currently ranks #8614 among girls.
251 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 15 births in a single year.
Blessed popularity over time — boys
191 total births recorded since 2001 (Blessed as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Blessed accounts for 43% of total recorded use across both genders.
Blessed by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 102 births that decade — 41% of Blessed's all-time total
Blessed decade highlights
- Peak decade 102 births
- Runner-up 73 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Blessed's strongest decade
102 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.