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Blair

Pronounced /bleɹ/

Rank in 2024
#2,181
Born in 2024
67
Peak year
1963 · #439
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,412 in 2024 (#218)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 67 boys were named Blair, about 1 in every 25,602.
  • It peaked in 1963 with 330 babies, ranked #439.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1881.
  • 14,939 boys have been named Blair since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Blair per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,197 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 1,239 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,988 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,940 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,367 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,274 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 825 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Scottish Gaelic blàr (“field, plain”).

  • (countable) A unisex given name.
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/bleɹ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Blair, CC BY-SA 4.0.