Meaning not yet researched.
Blythe: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,076 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,076 in 1974; #2,052 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Blythe in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,052 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #1,076.
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Blythe: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,076 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 174 (2013).
In 2025, 92 US girls were named Blythe, making it the 2,052nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 179 places from #1,873 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 107 girls named Blythe in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,076, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 174, in 2013. For comparison, it was #1,495 in 2015 and #2,058 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blythe in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 6 babies. In all, 5,441 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,443 babies named Blythe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,111 US girls were named Blythe; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 168. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,470 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Blythe ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,061 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Blithe and Blyth are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Blithe (18), Blyth (11).
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 Blythe 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,061 | #1,099 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,075 | #1,257 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,567 | #1,361 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,064 | #1,236 |
| California | 5 | #3,186 | #1,260 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,052 | 10 | #7,747 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,873 | 6 | #11,134 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,038 | 6 | #11,060 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,994 | 8 | #8,944 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,103 | 10 | #7,591 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,531 | 6 | #10,974 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,980 | 6 | #10,960 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,781 | 7 | #9,827 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,387 | 6 | #10,926 |
| 2015 | 153 | #1,495 | 6 | #10,845 |
| 2014 | 169 | #1,371 | 9 | #8,228 |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,338 | 7 | #9,769 |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,397 | 8 | #8,967 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,888 | 5 | #12,524 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,239 | 5 | #12,473 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,245 | 9 | #8,379 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,827 | 6 | #11,089 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,730 | 8 | #8,821 |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,281 | 8 | #8,381 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,312 | 7 | #9,049 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,325 | 6 | #9,720 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,232 | 9 | #7,111 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,515 | 11 | #5,960 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,533 | 5 | #10,081 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,123 | 7 | #7,649 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,329 | 7 | #7,369 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,654 | 7 | #7,065 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,594 | 5 | #8,937 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,884 | 5 | #8,846 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,247 | 6 | #7,367 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,908 | 5 | #8,246 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1985 | 84 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1984 | 91 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,833 | 5 | #6,148 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1974 | 109 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,311 | 5 | #4,095 |
| 1962 | 34 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,255 | 5 | #4,001 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,849 | — | — |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,820 | 5 | #3,766 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,618 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,421 | 5 | #3,383 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,696 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,007 | 7 | #2,897 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,308 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,407 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,802 | 5 | #4,218 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,911 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,377 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,985 | 5 | #4,372 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,925 | 5 | #4,242 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,912 | 5 | #4,051 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,558 | 5 | #3,885 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,404 | — | — |
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).