Blair
Blair reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 169, and has been recorded 38,276 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 169th. About 34,000 Blairs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Blair
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Blair crossed from boys to girls in 1981, and has stayed there for 45 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 96% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 114 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 38,276
- Estimated living today
- 34,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 169th
- Rank in 2025
- 169th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 23,267 / 15,009
How old the living Blairs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 38,276 babies given the name since 1881, about 34,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Scottish Gaelic blàr (“field, plain”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Blairs
- Blair Underwood (born 1964)American actor
- Blair Brown (born 1946)American actress
- Blair Redford (born 1983)American actor
- Blair Horn (born 1961)Canadian rower
- Blair Tuke (born 1989)New Zealand yachtsman
- Blair Adams (born 1991)British footballer
- Blair Evans (born 1991)Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
- Blair Imani (born 1993)American activist
People named Blair with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Blair is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Blair is most concentrated in Utah (2.4×), Louisiana (2.2×), Idaho (1.7×), Pennsylvania (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Blair peaked:
Blair elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Blair | 4,173 | 56th |
| New Zealand boys | Blair | 2,863 | 46th |
| England and Wales girls | Blair | 407 | 551st |
| England and Wales boys | Blair | 256 | 678th |
| Scotland girls | Blair | 247 | 151st |
| Ireland girls | Blair | 55 | 325th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Blair | 29 | 264th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Blair | 21 | 290th |
| France girls | Blair | 5 | 4,917th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Blair among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Blair | — | 9 |
| Finland girls | Blair | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Blair against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.