Blaise
Feminine · “lisping”
Blaise is given to both — 888 girls and 8,768 boys since 1880. See Blaise as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Blaise is a French name from a Roman one, and its meaning is unflattering in a way that Roman naming often was: Blasius appears to come from a word for someone who stammers or lisps.
How old is the name Blaise?
Blaise first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Blaise is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Blaise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blaise most popular?
Blaise peaked in 2021, reaching #3112 nationally. Today it ranks #3517, 405 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
From blaesus to Blaise
The story of Blaise
Saint Blaise was an Armenian bishop and physician of the fourth century whose cult spread widely in medieval Europe — he is invoked against throat ailments, and the blessing of throats on his feast day is still practiced. The name became Blaise in French, Biagio in Italian and Blas in Spanish. Its use for girls is recent and American, and it is helped along by the resemblance to the word blaze.
Meaningscholars disagree
lisping, stammering
The usual derivation takes Blasius from Latin blaesus, lisping, an ordinary Roman descriptive byname. Other readings have been proposed and none is settled. The English word blaze, a fire, is a separate word and not the source.
How the name formed
- blaesus
- Blasius
- Blaise
Related forms: Blaise · Biagio · Blas
Pronouncing Blaise
BLAYZ
One syllable in English, identical to the word blaze. French gives BLEZ, with a flatter vowel.
Nicknames for Blaise
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
- 1981
- Most girls named
- 202152 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3112reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- +4.9%43 in 2025, from 41
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.
Blaise in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Blaise in French — same name
- Biagio in Italian — same name
- Blas in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Louisiana.
Blaises among us
people named Blaise are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was named Blaise
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Blaise
- #3517
- Blaise on the 2025 chart
- #907
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Blaise went to 43 girls in 2025, but Blaize is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 53, which makes it the 907th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,610 places above the chart.
- Blaise43
- Blaize10
About 1 girl in 30,326 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,378 for Blaise itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deni test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Blaise's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deni climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deni's path sketches the road Blaise is walking now.
Blaise sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Blaise is headed
Blaise should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Blaise beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blaise in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented saint's name with a genuinely long European history.
- One syllable and six letters, easy to say and quick to learn.
- The French spelling is more distinctive than the word-name Blaze.
- Everyone will hear the English word blaze, which is a separate word entirely.
- The name is used for men in France, and for boys in America too, so forms may guess wrong.
- The Latin meaning is a speech impediment, which is not what most people expect.
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Frequently asked
- How many Blaises are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Blaise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Blaise?
- Blaise is the most-used spelling in US records — 43 of the 53 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Blaize.
- How popular is the name Blaise in 2025?
- Blaise ranks #3517 among US girl names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blaise?
- About 1 in every 37,378 US girls born in 2025 was named Blaise — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Blaise with classmates?
- Blaise will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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