Blake
Blake is ranked 265th among boys in 2024 (1,311 births). Its best rank was 71st, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- #265down 10 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3110.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 20126,047 births
- Best rank
- #71in 2012
- Since 1883
- 204,479people given the name
The story in the numbers
185,455 boys have been named Blake in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 6,047 births — 0.32% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 84 → 265).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 27%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 28 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 19,024 girls have also been given it, 9.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Blake | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | |
| 1890s | 37 | |
| 1900s | 45 | |
| 1910s | 260 | |
| 1920s | 414 | |
| 1930s | 320 | |
| 1940s | 583 | |
| 1950s | 2,595 | |
| 1960s | 4,721 | |
| 1970s | 5,444 | |
| 1980s | 25,398 | |
| 1990s | 45,870 | |
| 2000s | 50,109 | |
| 2010s | 41,717 | |
| 2020s | 7,923 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Blake was the 71st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Blake
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deseanpeak 2010
- Colinpeak 2004
- Alexandrepeak 2003
- Demariuspeak 2006
- Jamichaelpeak 2007
- Ryenpeak 2005
- Bradleepeak 2012
- Juancarlospeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.