Blossom

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Blossom is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 101 births. Its best rank was 727th, in 1925.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1010.01% of girls
Peak year: 1925102 births
Best rank: #727in 1925
Since 1882: 3,248people given the name

Babies named Blossom, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

3,248 girls have been named Blossom in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 102 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

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

By decade

Decade	girls named Blossom
1880s	12
1890s	69
1900s	113
1910s	292
1920s	743
1930s	286
1940s	134
1950s	132
1960s	87
1970s	147
1980s	105
1990s	172
2000s	167
2010s	382
2020s	407

In 1925, its biggest year

Blossom was the 727th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.

Names that rose and fell with Blossom

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.