Blase
Blase is a boy's name that peaked in 1948, when it was the 1,881st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 500 Blases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Blase
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 779
- Estimated living today
- 500
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1948
- Best rank
- 1,881st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Blases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 779 babies given the name since 1914, about 500 are alive — 64 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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
Origin Latin
A rather rare spelling variant of Blaise.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Blases
- Blase Cupich (born 1949)Catholic archbishop and cardinal
People named Blase with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Blase is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Blase is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (15.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1948
The most popular boys’ names the year Blase peaked:
Related names
Blase against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.