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Blessing: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 184 in 2025. Its best rank was #909 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #909 in 2019; #1,226 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Blessing in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,226 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #909.
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Blessing: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 184 girls in 2025. Peak: #909 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 291 (2019).
In 2025, 184 US girls were named Blessing, making it the 1,226th most common girls’ name of the year, down 120 places from #1,106 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 221 girls named Blessing in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #909, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 291. For comparison, it was #1,298 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 45 US boys were named Blessing, making it the 2,803rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 428 places from #2,375 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 59 boys named Blessing in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,375, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 59. For comparison, it was #3,892 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blessing in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 4,872 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,000 babies named Blessing.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,272 US girls were named Blessing; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 291. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,735 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Blessing ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #511 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 6 | #511 | — |
| Arizona | 12 | #550 | #866 |
| Maryland | 7 | #669 | #460 |
| Georgia | 10 | #924 | #827 |
| Missouri | 5 | #954 | #978 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,033 | #865 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,044 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,069 | — |
| Texas | 25 | #1,097 | #1,197 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,130 | #1,449 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,214 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,244 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,245 | #1,637 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,488 | #1,256 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,930 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,540 | #2,186 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 184 | #1,226 | 45 | #2,803 |
| 2024 | 221 | #1,106 | 59 | #2,375 |
| 2023 | 273 | #955 | 46 | #2,770 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,210 | 39 | #3,108 |
| 2021 | 237 | #1,061 | 27 | #3,927 |
| 2020 | 241 | #1,043 | 27 | #3,825 |
| 2019 | 291 | #909 | 34 | #3,357 |
| 2018 | 216 | #1,132 | 27 | #3,902 |
| 2017 | 217 | #1,142 | 32 | #3,450 |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,267 | 25 | #4,111 |
| 2015 | 185 | #1,298 | 27 | #3,892 |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,309 | 15 | #5,767 |
| 2013 | 144 | #1,526 | 14 | #5,958 |
| 2012 | 145 | #1,523 | 11 | #7,123 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,807 | 12 | #6,636 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,861 | 11 | #7,134 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,889 | 14 | #6,134 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,931 | 6 | #11,231 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,972 | 9 | #8,266 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,109 | 12 | #6,507 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,186 | 10 | #7,180 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,836 | 10 | #7,033 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,502 | 6 | #9,719 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,305 | 6 | #9,391 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,458 | 5 | #10,549 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,827 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,604 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,906 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,051 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,949 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,161 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,874 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,019 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,844 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,682 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,257 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,134 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,553 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,246 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,385 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,213 | — | — |
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).