Meaning not yet researched.
Blade: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,167 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,167 in 1996; #3,454 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Blade in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,454 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,167.
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Blade: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,167 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 112 (2002).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Blade, making it the 3,454th most common boys’ name of the year, up 759 places from #4,213 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 25 boys named Blade in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,167, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 112, in 2002. For comparison, it was #2,724 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blade in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 7 babies. In all, 2,136 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 758 babies named Blade.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 299 US boys were named Blade; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Blayde, Blaid and Blaide are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Blayde (301), Blaid (7), Blaide (6), Blayd (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Blade in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 33 | #3,454 |
| 2024 | — | — | 25 | #4,213 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,239 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,107 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,926 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,740 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,729 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,000 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,486 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,447 |
| 2015 | — | — | 44 | #2,724 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,160 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,671 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,298 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,351 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,828 |
| 2009 | — | — | 56 | #2,322 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,547 |
| 2007 | — | — | 59 | #2,239 |
| 2006 | — | — | 61 | #2,128 |
| 2005 | — | — | 72 | #1,804 |
| 2004 | — | — | 62 | #1,956 |
| 2003 | — | — | 89 | #1,466 |
| 2002 | — | — | 112 | #1,223 |
| 2001 | — | — | 103 | #1,283 |
| 2000 | — | — | 95 | #1,342 |
| 1999 | — | — | 99 | #1,249 |
| 1998 | — | — | 88 | #1,349 |
| 1997 | — | — | 77 | #1,414 |
| 1996 | — | — | 100 | #1,167 |
| 1995 | — | — | 89 | #1,233 |
| 1994 | — | — | 93 | #1,193 |
| 1993 | — | — | 72 | #1,342 |
| 1992 | — | — | 49 | #1,731 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,235 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,181 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,700 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,184 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,274 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,283 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,423 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,596 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,072 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).