Meaning not yet researched.
Bless: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,896 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,896 in 2018; #6,183 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Bless in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,183 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,896.
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Bless: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,896 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 41 (2022).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Bless, making it the 6,183rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,843 places from #3,340 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 35 boys named Bless in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,896, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 41, in 2022. For comparison, it was #3,698 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Bless, making it the 10,234th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,696 places from #8,538 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 12 girls named Bless in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,787, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #8,079 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bless in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 811 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 355 babies named Bless.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 305 US boys were named Bless; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bliss (2,023 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Blease 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: Blease (201).
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 Bless 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 | 9 | #10,234 | 14 | #6,183 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,538 | 35 | #3,340 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,787 | 32 | #3,576 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,336 | 41 | #3,012 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,698 | 36 | #3,250 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,045 | 30 | #3,586 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,077 | 36 | #3,209 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,293 | 41 | #2,896 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,859 | 23 | #4,342 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,310 | 17 | #5,349 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,079 | 29 | #3,698 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,641 | 16 | #5,507 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,160 | 22 | #4,338 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,274 | 14 | #6,035 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,895 | 9 | #8,159 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,414 | 13 | #6,395 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,612 | 17 | #5,353 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,747 | 10 | #7,766 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #7,660 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,603 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,555 | 8 | #8,380 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,970 | 6 | #10,113 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,556 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,936 | 6 | #9,527 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,066 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,104 | 8 | #7,519 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,880 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,404 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,498 | — | — |
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).