Meaning not yet researched.
Blaze: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 326 in 2025. Its best rank was #707 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #707 in 2015; #781 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Blaze in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#781 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #707.
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Blaze: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 326 boys in 2025. Peak: #707 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 354 (2015).
In 2025, 326 US boys were named Blaze, making it the 781st most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #757 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 336 boys named Blaze in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #707, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 354. For comparison, it was #707 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blaze in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 9,110 US babies have been given the name, 6.6% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,977 babies named Blaze.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,978 US boys were named Blaze; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 339. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,239 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Blaze ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #370 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Blaise (9,656 babies since 1880), Blaize (2,174 babies since 1880) and Blayze (1,347 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Blayz and Blaz 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: Blayz (69), Blaz (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 Blaze in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 32 | #370 | #1,010 |
| Alabama | 12 | #422 | #449 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #425 | #539 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #456 | #274 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #474 | #378 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #505 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #625 | — |
| Texas | 40 | #701 | #763 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #706 | #534 |
| Maryland | 6 | #718 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #719 | #464 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #725 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #730 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #757 | #722 |
| Ohio | 11 | #758 | #597 |
| California | 30 | #808 | #1,052 |
| Illinois | 10 | #811 | #751 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #839 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #887 | #1,006 |
| Michigan | 7 | #915 | #766 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #940 | #593 |
| New York | 12 | #1,002 | #1,499 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,896 | 326 | #781 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,041 | 336 | #757 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,416 | 336 | #767 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,221 | 339 | #753 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,262 | 322 | #774 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,513 | 271 | #842 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,210 | 244 | #898 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,704 | 260 | #851 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,515 | 281 | #809 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,481 | 263 | #855 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,335 | 354 | #707 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,132 | 302 | #773 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,662 | 331 | #711 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,821 | 305 | #749 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,831 | 265 | #822 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,886 | 251 | #842 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,522 | 269 | #822 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,971 | 245 | #866 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,779 | 235 | #876 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,719 | 228 | #871 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,007 | 214 | #860 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,890 | 219 | #819 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,636 | 252 | #727 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,746 | 217 | #795 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,214 | 224 | #767 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,308 | 179 | #880 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,061 | 133 | #1,041 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,110 | 101 | #1,216 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,247 | 100 | #1,190 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,809 | 84 | #1,303 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,109 | 114 | #1,043 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,364 | 95 | #1,169 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,560 | 89 | #1,186 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,113 | 63 | #1,456 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,489 | 88 | #1,183 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,821 | 72 | #1,306 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,793 | 53 | #1,538 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,180 | 51 | #1,482 |
| 1987 | — | — | 44 | #1,589 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,681 | 35 | #1,764 |
| 1985 | — | — | 27 | #2,077 |
| 1984 | — | — | 21 | #2,372 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,169 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,719 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,884 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,843 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,834 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,946 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,802 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,288 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,559 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,228 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,477 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,005 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,989 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,306 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,466 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,802 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,107 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,685 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,523 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,563 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,699 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,679 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,524 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,041 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,813 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,585 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,880 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,167 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,402 |
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).