Blaire
Feminine · Scottish Gaelic roots · “plain”
Blaire is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 7,959 girls against 111 boys since 1880.
Blaire is the Scottish surname Blair with a silent -e added, the same quiet flourish that separates Clair from Claire. Behind it sits a Gaelic word for open ground, still visible on the map of Scotland in places like Blair Atholl and Blairgowrie. One syllable, one breath, and it rhymes with air.
How old is the name Blaire?
Blaire first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Blaire is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 7,900 people named Blaire are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blaire most popular?
Blaire peaked in 2025, reaching #384 nationally. Today it ranks #384, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From blàr (Scottish Gaelic, 'plain, field') to Blaire
The story of Blaire
The name begins as a description of land — blàr in Scottish Gaelic, a plain or open field — and became attached to the families who held such ground. From surname it became a place name, and from place name a first name, which is the usual Scottish route: Blair joined Douglas, Ross and Lindsay in the drift from family label to baby name. In Scotland and much of the English-speaking world it went mainly to boys; in the United States it turned toward girls, and the added -e sharpened that turn, giving the name the same ending readers already know from Claire and Adaire. The Blaire spelling is the newer of the two, and in American records it is almost entirely feminine.
Meaning
plain, open field — and by extension, battlefield
The Gaelic word blàr covers both senses: a flat clearing, and the flat ground where battles were fought on it. Scottish place names use the peaceful sense; the martial reading comes from the same root, not a rival one.
How the name formed
- blàrScottish Gaelic, 'plain, field'
- BlairScottish place and surname
- Blairgiven name
- Blaire
Related forms: Blair · Blayre
Pronouncing Blaire
BLAIR
One syllable, rhyming with air and hair. The final -e is silent and changes nothing about the sound — Blaire and Blair are said identically.
Nicknames for Blaire
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1956
- Most girls named
- 2025802 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #384reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +14.7%802 in 2025, from 699
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Blaire in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Blair in English — spelling variant
- Blayre in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Blaires among us
people named Blaire are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,004 born in 2025 was named Blaire
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Leanna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Blaire's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Leanna climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Leanna's path sketches the road Blaire is walking now.
Blaire is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Blaire is headed
Blaire looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 27% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Blaire beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blaire in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and phonetically transparent: anyone who reads it says it correctly the first time.
- The sound is already familiar from the surname Blair, so it needs no explanation even where the spelling is new.
- Traceable in an unbroken line to a Scottish Gaelic word for open ground, still legible in Scottish place names.
- Short enough to sit comfortably in front of long or multi-part surnames.
- Blair is the default spelling, so Blaire will be spelled out at appointments, on forms and in email signatures for life. That is a small tax paid daily rather than a real problem.
- In Scotland, England and much of the Commonwealth, Blair still reads as a man's name, and among older American generations it can go either way. The -e signals a girl to most readers, but not to all of them.
- It is climbing rather than settling, so a name that feels distinctive now may be shared with a classmate or two later on.
- There is no ready-made nickname inside one syllable. Families who like a short form usually invent one instead of inheriting it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Blaires are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,900 people named Blaire are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Blaire in 2025?
- Blaire ranks #384 among US girl names in 2025, with 802 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blaire?
- About 1 in every 2,004 US girls born in 2025 was named Blaire — 802 in all.
- Will my child share the name Blaire with classmates?
- Blaire will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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