Blondell
Blondell was last recorded in 1975, when 5 babies were given it; 1,490 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blondell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Blondell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,212, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1934, the peak
Blondell peaked in 1934, when 51 babies were given it (46 girls, #1,020 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #9,212 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,698 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,675 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,573 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,223 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,653 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,819 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,608 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,614 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,743 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 19 | #2,684 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,456 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,844 | 17.1 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,973 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,226 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,307 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,974 | 14.4 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,686 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,774 | 16.7 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,728 | 17.5 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,218 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,903 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,636 | 19.2 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,236 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,516 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,294 | 28.6 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,707 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,367 | 25.9 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,274 | 29.8 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,352 | 27.1 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,225 | 32.8 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,271 | 29.9 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,361 | 27.3 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,247 | 31.7 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,168 | 35.3 |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,020 | 44.1 |
| 1933 | 43 | #1,063 | 42.7 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,177 | 34.7 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,556 | 22.5 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,756 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,714 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,343 | 28.6 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,526 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,626 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,897 | 17.3 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,357 | 28.8 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,640 | 21.6 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,537 | 24.1 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,518 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,715 | 20.0 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,487 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,280 | 30.2 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,909 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,813 | 18.2 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,556 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,490 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,179 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,732 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,250 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,962 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,248 | 14.4 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,987 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Blondell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,490 Americans recorded as Blondell, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Blondell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blondell, and how old are they?
An estimated 564 Americans named Blondell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 68 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 675 people named Blondell (641 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 Blondell born?
The states with the most babies named Blondell are South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 497 | not ranked | 16.4× |
| North Carolina | 45 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 41 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 38 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Blondell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blondell is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 16.4 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 Blondell 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 Blondell
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 Blondell and names like it
- Compare Blondell and ArletaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBlondell peaked in 1934.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blondell since 1910.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Blondell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Blondell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.