Blessing
Blessing is given to both girls and boys: 184 girls and 45 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,226 among girls’ names and #2,802 among boys’, #2,027 among all names counting both); 4,872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,830 Americans named Blessing and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blessing by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blessing mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Blessing is “a unisex given name of mainly African usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blessing?
#1,226 among girls’ names, 2025
Blessing rose from #1,298 in 2015 to #1,226 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.11 per 1,000.
325 babies in 2019, the peak
Blessing peaked in 2019, when 325 babies were given it (291 girls, #909 among girls’ names). The 229 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 184 | #1,226 | 45 | #2,802 |
| 2024 | 221 | #1,106 | 59 | #2,375 |
| 2023 | 273 | #955 | 46 | #2,769 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,210 | 39 | #3,106 |
| 2021 | 237 | #1,061 | 27 | #3,923 |
| 2020 | 241 | #1,043 | 27 | #3,822 |
| 2019 | 291 | #909 | 34 | #3,354 |
| 2018 | 216 | #1,132 | 27 | #3,898 |
| 2017 | 217 | #1,142 | 32 | #3,447 |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,267 | 25 | #4,110 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 185 | #1,298 | 27 | #3,891 |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,309 | 15 | #5,763 |
| 2013 | 144 | #1,526 | 14 | #5,953 |
| 2012 | 145 | #1,523 | 11 | #7,117 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,807 | 12 | #6,629 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,861 | 11 | #7,128 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,889 | 14 | #6,130 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,931 | 6 | #11,224 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,972 | 9 | #8,261 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,109 | 12 | #6,502 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,185 | 10 | #7,173 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,835 | 10 | #7,027 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,499 | 6 | #9,712 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,467 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,301 | 6 | #9,384 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,454 | 5 | #10,541 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,189 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,119 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,824 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,599 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,535 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,901 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,534 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,045 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,943 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,155 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,868 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,012 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,839 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,677 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,252 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,132 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,551 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,244 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,383 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,211 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Blessing a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,872 Americans recorded as Blessing, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Blessing: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blessing, and how old are they?
4,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,872 Americans ever recorded as Blessing. The median Blessing alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 4,680 people named Blessing (4,155 women and girls, 525 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 205 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,180 |
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 Blessing born?
The states with the most babies named Blessing are Texas, Arizona and New York, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #1,097 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 12 | #550 | 0.7× |
| New York | 11 | #1,245 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 10 | #924 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,033 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,044 | 0.7× |
| California | 7 | #2,540 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 7 | #669 | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,130 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,930 | 0.4× |
Where Blessing is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blessing is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1975 it was given 2.2 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 girls’ 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 Blessing with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Blessing
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 Blessing and names like it
- Compare Blessing and PraiseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBlessing peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blessing since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Blessing.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Blessing alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.