Primarily a boy's name · 91% boys
Blake is a unisex given name, which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Blake yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Blake has collapsed. Down 74% in ten years — by far the steepest fall anywhere in this batch, and one of the sharpest on the site — from 6,047 births in 2012 at rank 71 to 1,311 today at rank 265. Almost nothing else here has lost that much ground that fast. Part of the explanation is that Blake is genuinely split between boys and girls, so the single line understates the churn happening underneath it. Blake Lively, born 1987, is the most visible bearer and pulled the name toward girls; Blake Griffin and Blake Edwards pull the other way. Recorded from 1883 with 204,479 births banked, most of it accumulated in a twenty-year window either side of that 2012 peak. Unisex names tend to be unstable, and this is what that instability looks like at full scale.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1883 | 5 | #909 |
| 1886 | 9 | #654 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,054 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,020 |
| 1892 | 8 | #805 |
| 1893 | 6 | #924 |
| 1894 | 7 | #871 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,097 |
| 1897 | 6 | #954 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,335 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,068 |
| 1903 | 7 | #919 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,226 |
| 1906 | 9 | #862 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,234 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,092 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,051 |
| 1911 | 12 | #988 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,365 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,319 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,346 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,038 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,244 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,079 |
| 1918 | 39 | #1,097 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,009 |
| 1920 | 50 | #977 |
| 1921 | 61 | #892 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,143 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,101 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,120 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,164 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,193 |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,114 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,170 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,297 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,337 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,239 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,176 |
| 1933 | 41 | #998 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,095 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,126 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,208 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,266 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,251 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,198 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,160 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,155 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,008 |
| 1943 | 58 | #876 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,005 |
| 1945 | 51 | #885 |
| 1946 | 71 | #788 |
| 1947 | 86 | #743 |
| 1948 | 76 | #784 |
| 1949 | 89 | #729 |
| 1950 | 131 | #595 |
| 1951 | 139 | #586 |
| 1952 | 212 | #480 |
| 1953 | 207 | #488 |
| 1954 | 279 | #433 |
| 1955 | 279 | #445 |
| 1956 | 282 | #451 |
| 1957 | 288 | #455 |
| 1958 | 367 | #407 |
| 1959 | 411 | #391 |
| 1960 | 433 | #380 |
| 1961 | 511 | #350 |
| 1962 | 545 | #335 |
| 1963 | 569 | #330 |
| 1964 | 472 | #359 |
| 1965 | 445 | #364 |
| 1966 | 400 | #377 |
| 1967 | 422 | #364 |
| 1968 | 403 | #387 |
| 1969 | 521 | #347 |
| 1970 | 526 | #353 |
| 1971 | 476 | #368 |
| 1972 | 463 | #364 |
| 1973 | 427 | #370 |
| 1974 | 419 | #374 |
| 1975 | 523 | #333 |
| 1976 | 554 | #319 |
| 1977 | 644 | #300 |
| 1978 | 668 | #288 |
| 1979 | 744 | #276 |
| 1980 | 971 | #237 |
| 1981 | 1,702 | #159 |
| 1982 | 2,353 | #120 |
| 1983 | 2,497 | #109 |
| 1984 | 2,757 | #103 |
| 1985 | 2,922 | #100 |
| 1986 | 2,789 | #101 |
| 1987 | 2,785 | #106 |
| 1988 | 3,099 | #103 |
| 1989 | 3,523 | #97 |
| 1990 | 4,102 | #91 |
| 1991 | 4,275 | #86 |
| 1992 | 4,396 | #84 |
| 1993 | 4,504 | #83 |
| 1994 | 4,879 | #81 |
| 1995 | 4,820 | #77 |
| 1996 | 4,747 | #84 |
| 1997 | 4,728 | #80 |
| 1998 | 4,607 | #85 |
| 1999 | 4,812 | #84 |
| 2000 | 5,143 | #80 |
| 2001 | 5,356 | #77 |
| 2002 | 5,358 | #76 |
| 2003 | 5,275 | #79 |
| 2004 | 4,694 | #95 |
| 2005 | 4,418 | #99 |
| 2006 | 4,537 | #97 |
| 2007 | 5,277 | #88 |
| 2008 | 5,099 | #90 |
| 2009 | 4,952 | #89 |
| 2010 | 4,703 | #87 |
| 2011 | 5,616 | #73 |
| 2012 | 6,047 | #71 |
| 2013 | 5,649 | #75 |
| 2014 | 4,948 | #84 |
| 2015 | 4,233 | #96 |
| 2016 | 3,289 | #127 |
| 2017 | 2,626 | #149 |
| 2018 | 2,465 | #158 |
| 2019 | 2,141 | #183 |
| 2020 | 1,813 | #209 |
| 2021 | 1,848 | #205 |
| 2022 | 1,579 | #228 |
| 2023 | 1,372 | #255 |
| 2024 | 1,311 | #265 |
