girls:
5k births since 1897
#2397 (58th percentile)
boys:
257 births since 1915
#4329 (6th percentile)
overall:
5.2k births since 1897
#3778 (51st percentile)
The name Blythe is the #3,778 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,227 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 51.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,397 (58.1% percentile) for all time with 4,970 births since 1897. For boys, it ranks #4,329 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 257 births since 1915.
Blythe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Blythe is available in 103 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 40 years for boys). 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 Blythe has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Blythe reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 18.2% percentile (ranked #762) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 90 births per million (ranked 18.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Blythe ranks #844 for girls (10.9% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 68.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Blythe reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #808) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Blythe".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Blythe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.5% confident that Blythe is pronounced as blaith, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is blaith, at 47.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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