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Blaze

#781 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Blaise

Blaze has been given to 9,110 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #781 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 354 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Blaze, 2025

1 in 10,200

Blaze over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Blaze went to 8% girls and 92% boys.

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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.

Blaze: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Blaise

Latin

What Blaze means

Blaze is a variant of Blaise.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Blaze → Blaise. The family’s proposed meaning is “lisping, stammering”, recorded in the naming reference for Blaise.

Origin, language, and formation

Blaze is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Blaise.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,508 boys were recorded with the name Blaze between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 354 in 2015; its best national rank was #707 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #842 in 2020 to #781 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025.

In the United States, 602 girls were recorded with the name Blaze between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,816 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,509 in 2020 to #4,895 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,332 in 2015 to #4,895 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 Blaze?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,200
326 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,240
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#781
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,050 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Blaze 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,050 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blaze. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blazes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blaze was born before 2012 — so the typical Blaze is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,503
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (2,856).

Is Blaze 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
−24
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+61
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−74
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.1%
Peak was 2015 (354)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#707
2015

Spellings of Blaze

Blaze is not the most common spelling — Blake is, with 54.3% against Blaze's 2.5%.

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 Blaze is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Blaze was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 1,587 boys, against 1 in 5,798 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in 33,333).

363 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 1,587
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 2,083
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 2,326
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 2,941
  5. 5Missouri1 in 3,125
  6. 6Alabama1 in 3,226
  7. 7Georgia1 in 3,226
  8. 8Kansas1 in 4,348

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.

Geographically, Blaze is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 71% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Blaze is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Blaze was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,247,521 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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

Blaze around the world

Where Blaze 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
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2013
    #499
    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.

Notable people named Blaze

People whose public names include Blaze, 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.

Blaze in other languages

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

BlažBleazBlazhe

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

Blaze by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#781
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 61
Best rank ever
#707
2015
Peak year
2015
354 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,508
Count in 2025
326

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,895
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 614
Best rank ever
#3,816
1990
Peak year
2022
34 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
602
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Blaze

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

BlairBlaneBlaiseBlainBladeBlayneBlasBlaineBlaizeBlayzeBlakeBlaykeBlakelyBlaseHazeBlaydenBlaydeBladimirBladenBlandBlantonBlaireMazeBlaike

Names with a curve like Blaze

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

AbdullahZavierHamzaBridgerJovanniYosefAlessandroYousefJerichoMustafaYehudaJagger

Sibling names for Blaze

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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