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Blythe

Pronounced /blaɪð/

Rank in 2024
#1,873
Born in 2024
107
Peak year
2013 · #1346
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 107 girls were named Blythe, about 1 in every 15,077.
  • It peaked in 2013 with 174 babies, ranked #1346.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1897.
  • 5,076 girls have been named Blythe since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

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Greatest: 93 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 92 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 398 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 744 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 998 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,230 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,515 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

English surname, from Old English blīþe (“merry”). Many senses are derived from placenames, such as the River Blythe, all from the Old English adjective.

  • (countable) A female given name transferred from the surname, reinforced by the word blithe.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/blaɪð/

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