# Blair (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/blair/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “field”, “plain” |
| Pronunciation | /bleɹ/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | Dair |
| Variant spellings | Blaire, Blayre |
| US babies named this | 38,276 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15,009 / 23,267 (61% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 663, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## 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 | 262 | 979 |
| 2012 | 305 | 874 |
| 2013 | 383 | 720 |
| 2014 | 440 | 649 |
| 2015 | 484 | 606 |
| 2016 | 597 | 521 |
| 2017 | 614 | 511 |
| 2018 | 729 | 433 |
| 2019 | 771 | 402 |
| 2020 | 925 | 335 |
| 2021 | 1,025 | 316 |
| 2022 | 1,122 | 283 |
| 2023 | 1,264 | 242 |
| 2024 | 1,415 | 218 |
| 2025 | 1,806 | 169 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 75 | 1,869 |
| 2012 | 64 | 2,105 |
| 2013 | 59 | 2,210 |
| 2014 | 73 | 1,961 |
| 2015 | 70 | 2,036 |
| 2016 | 84 | 1,799 |
| 2017 | 75 | 1,921 |
| 2018 | 55 | 2,392 |
| 2019 | 66 | 2,150 |
| 2020 | 49 | 2,589 |
| 2021 | 60 | 2,303 |
| 2022 | 81 | 1,918 |
| 2023 | 86 | 1,851 |
| 2024 | 67 | 2,171 |
| 2025 | 70 | 2,094 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2,195 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,628 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,343 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,497 |
| 2020 | 26 | 1,238 |
| 2021 | 48 | 767 |
| 2022 | 33 | 1,023 |
| 2023 | 51 | 706 |
| 2024 | 65 | 603 |
| 2025 | 72 | 551 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 21 | 1,307 |

## People named Blair

- Blair Underwood, American actor (born 1964)
- Blair Brown, American actress (born 1946)
- Blair Redford, American actor
- Blair Horn, Canadian rower
- Blair Adams, British footballer (born 1991)
- Blair Imani, American activist
- Blair Evans, Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
- Blair Peach, Anti-Nazi protestor killed by the police in 1979
- Blair Cameron Bann, Canadian volleyball player
- Blair Betts, Canadian ice hockey player
- Blair Walsh, American football player, placekicker
- Blair Moody, American politician (1902–1954)

## 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.