# Blaine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/blaine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /bleɪn/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 34,307 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33,071 / 1,236 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 719, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 8,270 |
| 2012 | 19 | 6,641 |
| 2013 | 18 | 6,781 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,241 |
| 2015 | 14 | 8,077 |
| 2016 | 19 | 6,456 |
| 2017 | 18 | 6,581 |
| 2018 | 12 | 8,696 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6,759 |
| 2020 | 20 | 5,892 |
| 2021 | 29 | 4,636 |
| 2022 | 26 | 5,043 |
| 2023 | 30 | 4,582 |
| 2024 | 34 | 4,216 |
| 2025 | 20 | 5,950 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 439 | 569 |
| 2012 | 442 | 580 |
| 2013 | 446 | 578 |
| 2014 | 377 | 674 |
| 2015 | 400 | 650 |
| 2016 | 359 | 689 |
| 2017 | 323 | 737 |
| 2018 | 249 | 876 |
| 2019 | 251 | 876 |
| 2020 | 256 | 882 |
| 2021 | 224 | 984 |
| 2022 | 214 | 1,032 |
| 2023 | 208 | 1,047 |
| 2024 | 191 | 1,119 |
| 2025 | 230 | 992 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,209 |
| 2012 | 28 | 998 |
| 2013 | 28 | 1,001 |
| 2014 | 31 | 935 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,186 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,247 |
| 2018 | 19 | 1,324 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,125 |
| 2022 | 19 | 1,366 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,595 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2,664 |

## People named Blaine

- Blaine Luetkemeyer, American politician
- Blaine Lindgren, American hurdler (1939-2019)
- Blaine Higgs, Canadian politician
- Blaine Wilson, American gymnast
- Eloise Blaine Cram, American zoologist (1896-1957)
- Blaine Ridge-Davis, British cyclist
- Blaine Gabbert, American football player (born 1989)
- Blaine Trump, American socialite, philanthropist, and member of the Trump Family
- M. Blaine Peterson, American politician (1906-1985)
- Rebecca Harding Davis, American journalist (1831–1910)
- Madison McLaughlin, American actress
- Richard B. Alley, American geologist, author, and academic

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.