Blas
Blas is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 827th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 198843 births
- Best rank
- #827in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,908people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,908 boys have been named Blas in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 43 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1990s alone account for 12%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Blas | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 103 | |
| 1920s | 228 | |
| 1930s | 238 | |
| 1940s | 249 | |
| 1950s | 246 | |
| 1960s | 231 | |
| 1970s | 303 | |
| 1980s | 301 | |
| 1990s | 348 | |
| 2000s | 326 | |
| 2010s | 230 | |
| 2020s | 99 |
In 1988, its biggest year
Blas was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1988 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Blas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clementepeak 1996
- Sabinopeak 2001
- Silveriopeak 2001
- Evaristopeak 1971
- Candidopeak 1996
- Dentonpeak 1994
- Delfinopeak 1999
- Ritopeak 1988
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.