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Blake
Pronounced /bleɪk/
Rank in 2024
#265
Born in 2024
1,311
Peak year
2012 · #71
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,457 in 2024 (#210)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,311 boys were named Blake, about 1 in every 1,308.
- It peaked in 2012 with 6,047 babies, ranked #71.
- It first shows up in the records in 1883.
- 185,455 boys have been named Blake since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Blake per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 1.8Millennials1981–96
- 2.6Gen Z1997–12
- 1.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 647 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 648 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,447 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,606 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 56,150 babies, 1.84 per 1,000. Gen Z: 80,622 babies, 2.57 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 33,274 babies, 1.53 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.
- (countable) A unisex given name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- (rather rare) A female given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /bleɪk/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Blake, CC BY-SA 4.0.