Blitz
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Blitz has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2019. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2019, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Blitz, 2019
1 in 694,000
Blitz 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Blitz?
Blitz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Blitz sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blitz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Blitzs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Blitz was born before 2019 — so the typical Blitz is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Blitz 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2019 (5)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Blitz
Blitz is not the most common spelling — Fritz is, with 50.4% against Blitz's 0.04%.
Blitz around the world
Where Blitz 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.
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Blitz by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Blitz
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Blitz
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.