Blessing — #1113 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Blessing

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,155 babies named Blessing between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Blessing currently holds the #1113 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 291 babies received it in a single year. Blessing is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 484 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Blessing performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,790 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Blessing shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 466 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Blessing in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Blessing 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 4,155 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.