Bliss — #2193 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bliss

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,705 babies named Bliss between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bliss currently holds the #2193 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Bliss is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 225 additional births since 1887.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bliss performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 475 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Bliss shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 161 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Bliss in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bliss 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 1,705 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.