Blaine
Blaine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 191 births. Its best rank was 211th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1910.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2001617 births
- Best rank
- #211in 1884
- Since 1880
- 34,059people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,843 boys have been named Blaine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 617 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 15%. It has spent 137 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,216 girls have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Blaine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 175 | |
| 1890s | 96 | |
| 1900s | 84 | |
| 1910s | 824 | |
| 1920s | 1,483 | |
| 1930s | 1,397 | |
| 1940s | 1,624 | |
| 1950s | 3,102 | |
| 1960s | 3,602 | |
| 1970s | 2,605 | |
| 1980s | 3,670 | |
| 1990s | 4,622 | |
| 2000s | 4,799 | |
| 2010s | 3,667 | |
| 2020s | 1,093 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Blaine was the 405th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Blaine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rubenpeak 1992
- Tomaspeak 2003
- Andypeak 2005
- Pedropeak 2000
- Felipepeak 2001
- Blainpeak 2003
- Claytonpeak 2000
- Anthonypeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
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.