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Blaire

#384 in 2025Girls' name

Field, plain, through Blair

Blaire has been given to 8,070 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #384 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 802 recorded.

Babies named Blaire, 2025

1 in 4,130

Blaire over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blaire: meaning, origin, and history

Field, plain, through Blair

Scottish Gaelic

What Blaire means

Blaire belongs to the name family reached through Blaire → Blair. Its meaning is “field, plain”.

Origin, language, and formation

Blaire is used in English. Its origins include Scottish Gaelic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Blair.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,959 girls were recorded with the name Blaire between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 802 in 2025; its best national rank was #384 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #673 in 2020 to #384 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,172 in 2015 to #384 in 2025.

In the United States, 111 boys were recorded with the name Blaire between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,021 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,692 in 2020 to #9,838 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Blaire?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,130
802 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,000
0.05% of girls
Rank, 2025
#384
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,866 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Blaire sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 2,866 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blaire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blaires were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blaire was born before 2018 — so the typical Blaire is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,959
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (3,519).

Is Blaire 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
+62
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+289
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+788
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.73×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (802)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#384
2025

Spellings of Blaire

Blaire is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 45.1% against Blaire's 1.4%.

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 Blaire is used

Across 2016–2025, Blaire was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 885 girls, against 1 in 2,983 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 20,000).

5113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 885
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,299
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 1,370
  4. 4Missouri1 in 1,515
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 1,538
  6. 6Utah1 in 1,587
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 1,613
  8. 8North Dakota1 in 1,639

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Blaire is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 49% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Blaire around the world

Where Blaire 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
    1997–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #157
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #430
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Blaire

People whose public names include Blaire, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Blaire by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#384
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 289
Best rank ever
#384
2025
Peak year
2025
802 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,959
Count in 2025
802

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,838
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 146
Best rank ever
#4,021
1967
Peak year
2022
10 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
111
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Blaire

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

BlancaBlanchBlaykeDesireBlakeBlakelyBlairBlaineBlaiseBlayneKlaireBlakleyBlancheSapphireBlakelynBlakeleeBlakeleyBlazeDezireBlaizeBlaikeZyaireZaireBlayre

Names with a curve like Blaire

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

HollandEloraAriCapriSylvieNalaniAntonellaYaraRayaWynterAlessiaLyra

Sibling names for Blaire

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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