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Blade

#3,453 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Blade has been given to 2,136 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #3,453 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 112 recorded.

Babies named Blade, 2025

1 in 100,000

Blade over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blade: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Blade means

Blade is a given name.

The naming story behind Blade

Wikidata records Blade as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q124350557, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,136 boys were recorded with the name Blade between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 112 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,165 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,737 in 2020 to #3,453 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,723 in 2015 to #3,453 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Blade?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,453
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Blade sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blade. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blades were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blade was born before 2002 — so the typical Blade is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,136
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (758).

Is Blade rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+757
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+284
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−730
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.5%
Peak was 2002 (112)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,165
1996

Spellings of Blade

Blade is not the most common spelling — Blake is, with 19.5% against Blade's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Blade is used

Across 1910–2025, Blade was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 171,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Indiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Kansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Blade has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Blade around the world

Where Blade ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Blade in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Blade. Linked forms have their own page here.

Blades

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Blade by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,453
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 284
Best rank ever
#1,165
1996
Peak year
2002
112 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,136
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Blade

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Blade

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Blade, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Blade

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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