Meaning not yet researched.
Bleu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,330 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,330 in 2022; #3,253 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Bleu in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,253 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,330.
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Bleu: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,330 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 61 (2022).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Bleu, making it the 3,253rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 139 places from #3,114 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 39 boys named Bleu in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,330, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #7,127 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Bleu, making it the 5,751st most common girls’ name of the year, up 690 places from #6,441 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 18 girls named Bleu in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,838, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 39. For comparison, it was #14,807 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bleu in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 642 US babies have been given the name, 42% of them girls and 58% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 431 babies named Bleu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 325 US boys were named Bleu; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Blue (1,453 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Blia and Bly are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Blia (119), Bly (60).
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 Bleu 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 | 21 | #5,751 | 36 | #3,253 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,441 | 39 | #3,114 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,289 | 55 | #2,444 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,838 | 61 | #2,330 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,258 | 44 | #2,827 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,350 | 29 | #3,661 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,465 | 24 | #4,239 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,261 | 22 | #4,494 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,836 | 8 | #8,954 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,669 | 7 | #9,804 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,807 | 11 | #7,127 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,302 | 11 | #7,133 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,977 | — | — |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #12,523 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,467 | — | — |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,232 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #9,894 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,553 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,893 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,387 | — | — |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,424 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,962 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,612 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,147 |
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).