Blake
71,425 people in the United States were counted with the surname Blake in the 2020 census, making it the 450th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,185.
By the numbers
- People
- 71,425
- Rank
- 450th
- How common
- 1 in 4,185
- Per 100,000
- 23.9
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Blake described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Blake
- William Blake (1757–1827)English poet and artist
- Yohan Blake (born 1989)Jamaican athletics competitor
- James Blake (born 1979)American tennis player
- James Blake (born 1988)English singer-songwriter
- Robert Blake (1933–2023)American actor
- Quentin Blake (born 1932)English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer
- Robert Blake (1599–1657)military commander of the Commonwealth of England
- Geoffrey Blake (born 1962)American actor
People named Blake with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Blake
Also a first name
Blake has been given to 206,623 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.