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Blaze

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Blaze is ranked 761st among boys in 2024 (333 births). Its best rank was 707th, in 2015.

Rank in 2024
#761up 5 from 2023
Births in 2024
3330.02% of boys
Peak year
2015353 births
Best rank
#707in 2015
Since 1921
8,750people given the name
Babies named Blaze, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

8,175 boys have been named Blaze in the United States since 1921, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 353 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2015, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 35%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 575 girls have also been given it, 6.6% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Blaze
1920s5
1950s60
1960s57
1970s96
1980s283
1990s939
2000s2,282
2010s2,854
2020s1,599

In 2015, its biggest year

Blaze was the 707th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Blaze

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.