Meaning not yet researched.
Blu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,656 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,656 in 2021; #2,890 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Blu in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,890 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,656.
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Blu: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,656 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 48 (2023).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Blu, making it the 2,890th most common boys’ name of the year, up 732 places from #3,622 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 31 boys named Blu in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,656, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 48, in 2023. For comparison, it was #6,040 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Blu, making it the 6,364th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,186 places from #5,178 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 25 girls named Blu in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,839, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 39. For comparison, it was #10,272 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blu in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 828 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 421 babies named Blu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 325 US boys were named Blu; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Blu ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #711 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Blue (1,453 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Blu 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #711 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,875 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,322 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,364 | 43 | #2,890 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,178 | 31 | #3,622 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,290 | 48 | #2,698 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,839 | 41 | #3,013 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,893 | 48 | #2,656 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,371 | 26 | #3,933 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,078 | 26 | #4,014 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,162 | 28 | #3,803 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,430 | 19 | #4,961 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,986 | 15 | #5,822 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,272 | 14 | #6,040 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,262 | 12 | #6,686 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,605 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,564 | 7 | #9,832 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,141 | 6 | #10,986 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #9,824 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,553 | 9 | #8,378 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,748 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,554 | 7 | #9,696 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,227 | 5 | #11,677 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,495 | 8 | #8,221 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,122 | 8 | #7,930 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,594 | — | — |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,392 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,388 | 5 | #10,550 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,845 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,563 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #4,989 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,196 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,859 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,229 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,731 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,834 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,395 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,798 |
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).