Bliss
Bliss was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,219 among girls’ names; 2,023 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Bliss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bliss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bliss mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bliss is “a unisex given name from English.”
/blɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bliss?
#2,219 among girls’ names, 2025
Bliss rose from #3,439 in 2015 to #2,219 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.8 to 51.6 per million.
106 babies in 2023, the peak
Bliss peaked in 2023, when 106 babies were given it (94 girls, #2,062 among girls’ names). The 90 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,219 | 7 | #9,840 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,156 | 10 | #7,844 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,062 | 12 | #6,944 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,320 | 6 | #11,053 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,539 | 8 | #8,938 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,857 | 7 | #9,693 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,399 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,443 | 5 | #12,417 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,705 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,717 | 5 | #12,432 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,439 | 7 | #9,693 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,189 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,582 | 5 | #12,376 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,013 | 6 | #10,951 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,992 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,319 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,498 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,307 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,353 | 5 | #12,588 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,007 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,851 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,259 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,595 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,784 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,459 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,847 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,227 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,156 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,913 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,898 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,105 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,156 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,683 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,134 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,013 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,249 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,789 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,804 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,101 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,691 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,835 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,133 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,569 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,853 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,488 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,780 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,274 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,626 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,243 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,382 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,484 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,382 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,010 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,467 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,443 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,018 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,319 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,093 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,523 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,869 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,115 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,681 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,292 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,768 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,618 | 6 | #3,649 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,179 | 5 | #4,007 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,362 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,627 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,628 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,717 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,020 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,633 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,245 | 6 | #3,257 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,178 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,208 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,600 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,704 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #3,818 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,052 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,749 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #3,920 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,311 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,567 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,401 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,866 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,909 | 5 | #4,219 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,904 | 9 | #2,904 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,381 | 9 | #2,755 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,501 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 1915 | under 5 | 5 | #3,883 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 13 | #1,789 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 5 | #1,769 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 5 | #1,253 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 5 | #946 |
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 Bliss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,023 Americans recorded as Bliss, 88% are girls and 12% boys. In 2025 it went to 83 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bliss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bliss, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,023 Americans ever recorded as Bliss. The median Bliss alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,513 people named Bliss (1,327 women and girls, 186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 66 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 142 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 314 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 463 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 819 |
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 Bliss born?
The states with the most babies named Bliss are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,685 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #2,834 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #794 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,566 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,424 | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 5 | #861 | 0.1× |
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 Bliss with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,225 babies since 1880, Bliss is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 103 babies (87%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bliss
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 Bliss and names like it
- Compare Bliss and BlyssBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBliss peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bliss since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Bliss: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Bliss.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bliss alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.