girls:
548 births since 1986
#5168 (10th percentile)
boys:
7.8k births since 1921
#1331 (71st percentile)
overall:
8.4k births since 1921
#2949 (62nd percentile)
The name Blaze is the #2,949 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,384 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 61.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,331 (71.0% percentile) for all time with 7,836 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #5,168 (9.6% percentile) for all time with 548 births since 1986.
Blaze first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Blaze is available in 69 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (69 years for boys and 37 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 Blaze has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.8% of babies named Blaze were boys.
For boys, Blaze reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 35.4% percentile (ranked #585) with 173 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 182 births per million (ranked 34.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Blaze is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #599 (34.3% percentile) with 182 births per million.
For girls, Blaze reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #929) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Blaze ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 66.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Blaze".
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