Blake
The boy's name Blake has been in the national records since 1883, with 206,623 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 316th. About 199,000 Blakes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 206,623
- Estimated living today
- 199,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 71st
- Rank in 2025
- 316th
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 20,065 / 186,558
How old the living Blakes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 206,623 babies given the name since 1883, about 199,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 76,000 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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
A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Blakes
- Blake Lively (born 1987)American actress
- Blake Clark (born 1946)American stand-up comedian
- Blake Edwards (1922–2010)American film director, screenwriter and producer
- Blake Griffin (born 1989)American basketball player
- Blake Shelton (born 1976)American country music singer and television personality
- James Blake (born 1988)English singer-songwriter
- Blake Jenner (born 1992)American actor
- Blake Michael (born 1996)American actor
People named Blake with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Blake is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Blake is most concentrated in Utah (2.0×), Idaho (2.0×), Nevada (1.8×), Alaska (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular boys’ names the year Blake peaked:
Blake elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Blake | 16,704 | 57th |
| New Zealand boys | Blake | 3,998 | 14th |
| Scotland boys | Blake | 1,956 | 25th |
| Ireland boys | Blake | 1,052 | 94th |
| England and Wales girls | Blake | 984 | 382nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Blake | 671 | 62nd |
| Scotland girls | Blake | 308 | 93rd |
| Ireland girls | Blake | 65 | 316th |
| France boys | Blake | 45 | 4,833rd |
| France girls | Blake | 25 | 7,389th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Blake | 25 | 288th |
| Poland boys | Blake | 8 birth registrations | 595th |
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.
Blake by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Blake 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 | Blake | 18 | 27 |
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
Blake 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.