Blue

At the 2020 census, 24,162 Americans bore the surname Blue — 1,436th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,400.

By the numbers

People: 24,162
Rank: 1,436th
How common: 1 in 12,400
Per 100,000: 8.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From the German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate bleu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Blue described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 43.8%
Black, not Hispanic 42.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Blue

Jonas Blue (born 1989)British DJ and music producer
Alektra Blue (born 1983)American pornographic actress and model
Mick Blue (born 1976)Austrian pornographic actor
Ashley Blue (born 1981)American pornographic actress and director
Vanessa Blue (born 1974)American pornographic actress and director
Monte Blue (1887–1963)American actor
David Blue (born 1982)American actor and director
Callum Blue (born 1977)English actor

People named Blue with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Blue

Also a first name

Blue has been given to 1,453 American babies as a first name since 1968, peaking in 2024. 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.