Blythe
About 5,441 American babies have been named Blythe since 1897, most of them around 2013. In 2025 it ranked 2,051st. About 5,100 Blythes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Blythe boys named Blythe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,441
- Estimated living today
- 5,100
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 1,338th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,051st
- First recorded
- 1897
- Girls / boys
- 5,168 / 273
How old the living Blythes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,441 babies given the name since 1897, about 5,100 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 270 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 a surname
English surname, from Old English blīþe (“merry”). Many senses are derived from placenames, such as the River Blythe, all from the Old English adjective.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Blythes
- Blythe Danner (born 1943)American actress
- Blythe Hartley (born 1982)Canadian diver
- Blythe Auffarth (born 1985)American actress
People named Blythe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Blythe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Blythe is most concentrated in South Carolina (3.0×), Texas (2.9×), California (2.6×), North Carolina (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular girls’ names the year Blythe peaked:
Blythe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Blythe | 496 | 990th |
| Scotland girls | Blythe | 129 | 356th |
| England and Wales boys | Blythe | 6 | 4,702nd |
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.