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Blane

About 4,459 American babies have been named Blane since 1914, most of them around 1957. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 3,900 Blanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Blane boys named Blane

By the numbers

Total US births
4,459
Estimated living today
3,900
Median age today
33
Peak year
1957
Best rank
708th
Rank in 2025
3,949th
First recorded
1914
Girls / boys
11 / 4,448

How old the living Blanes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,459 babies given the name since 1914, about 3,900 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 790 of them are children and 640 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 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 Blane is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Blane is most concentrated in Hawaii (7.0×), Louisiana (7.0×), Texas (4.0×), Oklahoma (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1957

The most popular boys’ names the year Blane peaked:

All the names of 1957

Blane elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Blane 117 964th
Scotland boys Blane 40 529th
Ireland boys Blane 3 369th

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.

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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.