Blain
Blain is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 986th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200358 births
- Best rank
- #986in 1884
- Since 1884
- 2,278people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,278 boys have been named Blain in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 58 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 2000s alone account for 16%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Blain | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 47 | |
| 1920s | 101 | |
| 1930s | 76 | |
| 1940s | 72 | |
| 1950s | 182 | |
| 1960s | 299 | |
| 1970s | 242 | |
| 1980s | 299 | |
| 1990s | 365 | |
| 2000s | 372 | |
| 2010s | 184 | |
| 2020s | 34 |
In 2003, its biggest year
Blain was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Blain
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gilbertopeak 1993
- Anthonypeak 1990
- Claudiopeak 1996
- Raulpeak 2000
- Orlandopeak 1987
- Armandopeak 1997
- Ernestopeak 2003
- Jacquespeak 1969
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.