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Blane

#3,962 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Blane has been given to 4,459 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,962 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Blane, 2025

1 in 123,000

Blane over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blane: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Blane means

Blane is a given name.

The naming story behind Blane

Wikidata records Blane as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q111911702, 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, 4,448 boys were recorded with the name Blane between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1957; its best national rank was #703 in 1958.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,582 in 2020 to #3,962 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,971 in 2015 to #3,962 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Blane between 2005 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2007; its best national rank was #15,793 in 2007.

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 Blane?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,962
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Blane 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blane was born before 1988 — so the typical Blane is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,261
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (843).

Is Blane 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
−499
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−380
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−991
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.7%
Peak was 1957 (114)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#703
1958

Spellings of Blane

Blane is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 28.3% against Blane's 0.35%.

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 Blane is used

Across 1910–2025, Blane was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 108,283 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 20,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Blane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Blane around the world

Where Blane 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
    1996–2020
    #2,960
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    1990–2024
    #619
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1996–1996
    #369
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1993–1995
    #1,710
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1965–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Blane by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,962
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 380
Best rank ever
#703
1958
Peak year
1957
114 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,448
Count in 2025
27

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,793
2007
Peak year
2007
6 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Blane

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

BlazeBlainBladeBlayneBlasBlairBlaiseBlaizeDeaneThaneBlayzeKeaneBlaykeBlaineBlakelyDwaneBlaseBlaydenBaneBlaydeKaneBladimirBladenBland

Names with a curve like Blane

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

MichalMikealGilDannielReganMikelSammuelKentonFrankyKevenJonnyRoel

Sibling names for Blane

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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