Meaning not yet researched.
Bliss: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,692 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,692 in 1986; #2,219 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Bliss in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,219 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #1,692.
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Bliss: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,692 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 94 (2023).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Bliss, making it the 2,219th most common girls’ name of the year, down 63 places from #2,156 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 88 girls named Bliss in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,692, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 94, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,439 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Bliss, making it the 9,844th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,995 places from #7,849 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 boys named Bliss in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #946, reached in 1887. The most boys given the name in a single year was 13, in 1914. For comparison, it was #9,699 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bliss in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 5 babies. In all, 2,023 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 503 babies named Bliss.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 612 US girls were named Bliss; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bliss ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #794 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bless (811 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Blyss 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: Blyss (202).
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 Bliss 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #794 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #861 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,424 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,566 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,685 | #1,833 |
| California | 6 | #2,834 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,219 | 7 | #9,844 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,156 | 10 | #7,849 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,062 | 12 | #6,949 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,321 | 6 | #11,059 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,539 | 8 | #8,943 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,857 | 7 | #9,699 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,444 | 5 | #12,423 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,717 | 5 | #12,438 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,439 | 7 | #9,699 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,191 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,584 | 5 | #12,383 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,014 | 6 | #10,958 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,320 | — | — |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,499 | — | — |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,310 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,357 | 5 | #12,594 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,264 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,600 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,788 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,854 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,233 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,160 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,917 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,903 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,110 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,162 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,689 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,141 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,254 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,795 | — | — |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,840 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,135 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,571 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,855 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,489 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,781 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,628 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,245 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,383 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,012 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,469 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,444 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,020 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,321 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,094 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,870 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,682 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,769 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,619 | 6 | #3,650 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,180 | 5 | #4,008 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,363 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,628 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,630 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,022 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,635 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,246 | 6 | #3,258 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,179 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,209 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,601 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,706 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,820 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,054 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,751 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,922 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,314 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,569 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,403 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,868 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,911 | 5 | #4,221 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,906 | 9 | #2,905 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,383 | 9 | #2,756 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,503 | 10 | #2,567 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,884 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,790 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,770 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,254 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #946 |
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).