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Blease

Blease is a boy's name that peaked in 1913, when it was the 1,146th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1961. About 30 Bleases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Blease

By the numbers

Total US births
201
Estimated living today
30
Median age today
75
Peak year
1913
Best rank
1,146th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1911

How old the living Bleases are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 201 babies given the name since 1911, about 30 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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 Blease is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Blease is most concentrated in South Carolina (68.0×).

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

Names of 1913

The most popular boys’ names the year Blease peaked:

All the names of 1913

Related names

Blease 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.