Meaning not yet researched.
Blakely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,638 in 2025. Its best rank was #156 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #156 in 2023; #191 in 2025. About 99.5% of babies named Blakely in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#191 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #156.
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Blakely: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,638 girls in 2025. Peak: #156 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 1,892 (2024).
In 2025, 1,638 US girls were named Blakely, making it the 191st most common girls’ name of the year, down 33 places from #158 in 2024. That is 254 fewer than the 1,892 girls named Blakely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #156, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,892, in 2024. For comparison, it was #357 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blakely in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 6 babies. In all, 22,036 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 10,761 babies named Blakely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,002 US girls were named Blakely; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,892. In 2025 that was about 1 in 981 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Blakely ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #43 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 15 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Blakeley (1,453 babies since 1880) and Blakelee (1,418 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Blakeli, Blakelie and Blakelei 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Blakeli (84), Blakelie (39), Blakelei (7), Blaykely (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 Blakely in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 56 | #43 | #110 |
| Arkansas | 43 | #44 | #112 |
| Alabama | 67 | #46 | #81 |
| Idaho | 28 | #58 | #65 |
| Montana | 13 | #62 | #147 |
| Kansas | 36 | #77 | #158 |
| Iowa | 36 | #79 | #277 |
| Utah | 51 | #80 | #168 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #81 | #99 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #84 | — |
| Mississippi | 25 | #86 | #302 |
| Nebraska | 22 | #90 | #154 |
| Kentucky | 45 | #92 | #217 |
| Missouri | 59 | #95 | #260 |
| Georgia | 89 | #97 | #134 |
| South Carolina | 39 | #109 | #239 |
| Louisiana | 35 | #117 | #371 |
| West Virginia | 13 | #118 | — |
| Indiana | 49 | #135 | #296 |
| Tennessee | 53 | #139 | #130 |
| Wisconsin | 38 | #140 | #420 |
| Alaska | 5 | #144 | — |
| Minnesota | 37 | #145 | #480 |
| Oregon | 24 | #145 | #430 |
| Michigan | 54 | #158 | #483 |
| Ohio | 66 | #164 | #545 |
| Arizona | 38 | #166 | #714 |
| Washington | 41 | #178 | #243 |
| North Carolina | 56 | #193 | #304 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #195 | #155 |
| Colorado | 28 | #226 | #340 |
| Illinois | 43 | #240 | #773 |
| Texas | 138 | #251 | #251 |
| Florida | 75 | #253 | #521 |
| Maryland | 19 | #272 | #911 |
| Virginia | 30 | #274 | #250 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #278 | #796 |
| Nevada | 7 | #383 | — |
| New York | 28 | #592 | #1,797 |
| California | 52 | #608 | #1,001 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #639 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #727 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,638 | #191 | 8 | #9,030 |
| 2024 | 1,892 | #158 | 13 | #6,514 |
| 2023 | 1,860 | #156 | 13 | #6,585 |
| 2022 | 1,737 | #167 | 14 | #6,193 |
| 2021 | 1,837 | #156 | 15 | #5,801 |
| 2020 | 1,713 | #167 | 21 | #4,555 |
| 2019 | 1,609 | #183 | 17 | #5,379 |
| 2018 | 1,308 | #250 | 10 | #7,698 |
| 2017 | 1,230 | #259 | 18 | #5,128 |
| 2016 | 1,178 | #270 | 20 | #4,798 |
| 2015 | 921 | #357 | 21 | #4,564 |
| 2014 | 777 | #412 | 24 | #4,154 |
| 2013 | 683 | #450 | 26 | #3,873 |
| 2012 | 544 | #546 | 30 | #3,541 |
| 2011 | 278 | #929 | 30 | #3,520 |
| 2010 | 231 | #1,077 | 21 | #4,536 |
| 2009 | 176 | #1,353 | 14 | #6,133 |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,092 | 20 | #4,732 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,571 | 25 | #4,019 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,707 | 17 | #5,099 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,763 | 14 | #5,601 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,814 | 16 | #5,038 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,892 | 20 | #4,130 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,977 | 18 | #4,339 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,639 | 28 | #3,150 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,595 | 26 | #3,223 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,323 | 33 | #2,614 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,661 | 22 | #3,398 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,885 | 28 | #2,756 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,035 | 24 | #3,035 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,294 | 26 | #2,772 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,173 | 21 | #3,226 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,777 | 26 | #2,711 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,150 | 29 | #2,472 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,641 | 21 | #3,000 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,393 | 52 | #1,588 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,774 | 21 | #2,917 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,878 | 22 | #2,613 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,001 | 31 | #1,978 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,749 | 17 | #2,903 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,141 | 24 | #2,232 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,500 | 23 | #2,240 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,494 | 27 | #1,963 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,547 | 33 | #1,736 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,289 | 26 | #2,044 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,345 | 18 | #2,627 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,456 | 11 | #3,586 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,273 | 11 | #3,419 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,627 | 15 | #2,801 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,631 | 7 | #4,483 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,562 | 10 | #3,458 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,344 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,545 | 8 | #3,740 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,377 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,441 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #3,882 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,579 | 10 | #2,885 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,192 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,011 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #3,972 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,313 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,066 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,385 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,892 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,048 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,602 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,539 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,342 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,532 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,862 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,907 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,400 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,866 |
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).