girls:
17.3k births since 1969
#1137 (80th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1920
#3394 (26th percentile)
overall:
18.5k births since 1920
#1887 (76th percentile)
The name Blakely is the #1,887 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,466 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 75.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,137 (80.1% percentile) for all time with 17,253 births since 1969. For boys, it ranks #3,394 (25.9% percentile) for all time with 1,213 births since 1920.
Blakely first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Blakely is available in 72 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (72 years for boys and 51 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 Blakely has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.4% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1991, the name was more popular for boys (63.3% boys from 1920 to 1990), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (96.0% girls from 1991 to 2023).
For girls, Blakely reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 84.2% percentile (ranked #149) with 1,024 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,060 births per million (ranked 84.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Blakely is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #152 (84.0% percentile) with 1,060 births per million.
For boys, Blakely reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #722) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 24 births per million (ranked 6.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Blakely ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 29.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Blakely".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Blakely. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.0% confident that Blakely is pronounced as BLAYK-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BLAK-lee, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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