Blythe — #1861 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Blythe

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,076 babies named Blythe between 1897 and 2024, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Blythe currently holds the #1861 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 174 babies received it in a single year. Blythe is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 263 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Blythe performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,378 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Blythe shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 505 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Blythe in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Blythe 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 5,076 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.