# Blue (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/blue/  
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 | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,453 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 950 / 503 (35% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 651, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate bleu.

## 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 | 7 | 13,595 |
| 2012 | 10 | 10,565 |
| 2013 | 21 | 6,051 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,242 |
| 2015 | 20 | 6,278 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,311 |
| 2017 | 19 | 6,332 |
| 2018 | 23 | 5,482 |
| 2019 | 19 | 6,210 |
| 2020 | 32 | 4,280 |
| 2021 | 43 | 3,556 |
| 2022 | 37 | 3,981 |
| 2023 | 32 | 4,378 |
| 2024 | 32 | 4,403 |
| 2025 | 29 | 4,676 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 7,070 |
| 2012 | 22 | 4,411 |
| 2013 | 20 | 4,640 |
| 2014 | 17 | 5,277 |
| 2015 | 32 | 3,441 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,341 |
| 2017 | 29 | 3,688 |
| 2018 | 31 | 3,543 |
| 2019 | 35 | 3,268 |
| 2020 | 42 | 2,852 |
| 2021 | 46 | 2,734 |
| 2022 | 48 | 2,723 |
| 2023 | 42 | 2,958 |
| 2024 | 51 | 2,602 |
| 2025 | 49 | 2,648 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,966 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,961 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,887 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,449 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,124 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1,294 |
| 2014 | 26 | 1,061 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 22 | 1,210 |
| 2018 | 26 | 1,061 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,369 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,230 |
| 2021 | 27 | 1,055 |
| 2022 | 23 | 1,179 |
| 2023 | 26 | 1,108 |
| 2024 | 27 | 1,076 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,538 |

## People named Blue

- Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
- Blue Ivy Carter, American singer and actress (born 2012)
- Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, German actor
- Elijah Blue Allman, American musician
- Adele, English singer-songwriter (born 1988)

## 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.