Meaning not yet researched.
Blue: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,429 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,429 in 1969; #2,648 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Blue in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,648 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #2,429.
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Blue: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,429 in 1969 · most boys in one year: 51 (2024).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Blue, making it the 2,648th most common boys’ name of the year, down 46 places from #2,602 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 51 boys named Blue in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,429, reached in 1969. The most boys given the name in a single year was 51, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,441 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Blue, making it the 4,676th most common girls’ name of the year, down 273 places from #4,403 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 32 girls named Blue in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,556, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #6,278 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blue in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 11 babies. In all, 1,453 US babies have been given the name, 35% of them girls and 65% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 483 babies named Blue.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 396 US boys were named Blue; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Blue ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,606 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Blu (828 babies since 1880) and Bleu (642 babies since 1880).
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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 Blue 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,606 | #2,312 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,656 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,664 | #2,150 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,676 | 49 | #2,648 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,403 | 51 | #2,602 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,378 | 42 | #2,958 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,981 | 48 | #2,723 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,556 | 46 | #2,734 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,280 | 42 | #2,852 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,210 | 35 | #3,268 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,482 | 31 | #3,543 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,332 | 29 | #3,688 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,311 | 23 | #4,341 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,278 | 32 | #3,441 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,242 | 17 | #5,277 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,051 | 20 | #4,640 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,565 | 22 | #4,411 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,595 | 11 | #7,070 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,468 | 15 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,744 | 11 | #7,280 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,749 | 18 | #5,085 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,803 | 14 | #5,947 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,604 | 20 | #4,537 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,961 | 16 | #5,067 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,972 | 17 | #4,820 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,844 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,857 | 13 | #5,430 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,710 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,266 | 23 | #3,551 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,599 | 11 | #5,696 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,607 | 17 | #4,033 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,928 | 13 | #4,692 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,723 | 11 | #5,219 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,694 | 14 | #4,306 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,963 | 11 | #5,137 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,134 | 8 | #6,286 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,905 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,562 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,207 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,072 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,643 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,075 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,564 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #4,990 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #4,900 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,947 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,634 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,046 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,548 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,557 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,868 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,006 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,450 | 5 | #4,990 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,092 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,429 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,593 |
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).