girls:
17 births since 2006
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1884
#2648 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1884
#5514 (29th percentile)
The name Blain is the #5,514 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,288 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 28.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,648 (42.2% percentile) for all time with 2,271 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2006.
Blain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Blain is available in 108 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Blain has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Blain reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #676) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Blain ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Blain reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #965) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Blain".
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