Blaney
#13,471 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Blaney has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #13,471 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% girls, 28% boys all-time.
Babies named Blaney, 2025
1 in 553,000
Blaney over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Blaney over time
In 2025, Blaney went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Blaney?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,471
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Blaney sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blaney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Blaneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Blaney was born before 2001 — so the typical Blaney is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 13
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Blaney 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 85.7%
- Peak was 2001 (7)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Blaney
Blaney is not the most common spelling — Brandy is, with 30.7% against Blaney's <0.01%.
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.
Blaney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Blaney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Blaney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.