# Blaise (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/blaise/  
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 | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Blaize, Blase |
| US babies named this | 9,656 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,768 / 888 (9% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 566, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Old French Blaise in the Middle Ages and revived partly due to the modern French equivalent, from Latin Blasius. Doublet of Blasius.

## 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 | 10 | 10,523 |
| 2012 | 23 | 5,736 |
| 2013 | 15 | 7,814 |
| 2014 | 31 | 4,563 |
| 2015 | 24 | 5,493 |
| 2016 | 24 | 5,482 |
| 2017 | 31 | 4,494 |
| 2018 | 29 | 4,681 |
| 2019 | 40 | 3,729 |
| 2020 | 40 | 3,694 |
| 2021 | 52 | 3,119 |
| 2022 | 46 | 3,429 |
| 2023 | 43 | 3,600 |
| 2024 | 41 | 3,706 |
| 2025 | 43 | 3,530 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 213 | 935 |
| 2012 | 227 | 909 |
| 2013 | 230 | 904 |
| 2014 | 262 | 851 |
| 2015 | 283 | 808 |
| 2016 | 238 | 904 |
| 2017 | 234 | 913 |
| 2018 | 204 | 1,012 |
| 2019 | 235 | 927 |
| 2020 | 235 | 936 |
| 2021 | 217 | 1,009 |
| 2022 | 219 | 1,016 |
| 2023 | 199 | 1,080 |
| 2024 | 194 | 1,106 |
| 2025 | 213 | 1,038 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,541 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3,035 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 2,039 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,486 |
| 2015 | 21 | 1,236 |
| 2016 | 20 | 1,319 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,172 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Վլաս
- Bulgarian: Власий, Блез
- Catalan: Blai
- Czech: Blažej
- Dutch: Blasius
- French: Blaise
- German: Blasius
- Greek: Βλάσιος
- Hungarian: Balázs
- Irish: Blaise
- Italian: Biagio
- Latin: Blasius
- Polish: Błażej
- Portuguese: Brás
- Romanian: Blasiu
- Russian: Власий
- Slovene: Blaž
- Spanish: Blas
- Swedish: Blasius
- Ukrainian: Власій

## People named Blaise

- Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623–1662)
- Blaise Matuidi, French footballer (born 1987)
- Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (1523-1596)
- Blaise Metreweli, British civil servant and intelligence officer
- Blaise Giezendanner, French alpine skier
- Blaise François Pagan, French architect
- Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French painter (1830-1901)
- Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet, dramatist and politician (1764-1811)
- Pierre-Émile Martin, French engineer (1824-1915)
- Hunter Tyson, American basketball player (born 2000)
- Lelo Mbele, Congolese footballer (born 1987)

## 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.