Blaise
Masculine · “lisping”
Blaise is given to both — 8,768 boys and 888 girls since 1880. See Blaise as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Blaise is the French form of a name carried across medieval Europe by one saint and into modern thought by one mathematician, and it has stayed one clean syllable through all of it. It arrives in English fully assembled — one beat, a soft opening and a buzzing z at the end — with nothing to trim and nothing to add.
How old is the name Blaise?
Blaise first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Blaise alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 8,200 people named Blaise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blaise most popular?
Blaise peaked in 2002, reaching #803 nationally. Today it ranks #1038, 235 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Blaesus to Blaise
The story of Blaise
The Latin name Blasius belonged to a bishop of Sebaste in Cappadocia who was martyred in the early fourth century; as Saint Blaise he became one of the most widely venerated saints of medieval Europe, invoked against ailments of the throat, and his feast is still marked in the Catholic calendar on the third of February. That devotion scattered his name across the continent in local dress — Biagio in Italy, Blas in Spain, Balázs in Hungary — while French speakers settled on Blaise. Thirteenth-century Arthurian romance gave the name to Blaise, the scribe who set down Merlin's deeds, and the seventeenth-century mathematician and writer Blaise Pascal fixed the French spelling in the wider imagination. It reached American records early in the twentieth century and has held a quiet, unbroken place since.
Meaning
lisping, stammering
From Latin blaesus, a descriptive nickname that became the Roman family name Blasius. Like many Roman cognomina, it began as a physical observation and long ago stopped functioning as one.
How the name formed
- Blaesus
- Blasius
- Blaise
Related forms: Biagio · Blas · Brás · Balázs · Błażej · Blasius
Pronouncing Blaise
BLAYZ
One syllable, rhyming with days. In French the vowel is flatter, closer to BLEZ, but the English pronunciation is standard here and is what people reach for on first sight.
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
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 2014262 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #803reached in 2002
- Change vs 2023
- +7.0%213 in 2025, from 199
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
- Biagio in Italian — same name
- Blas in Spanish — same name
- Brás in Portuguese — same name
- Balázs in Hungarian — same name
- Błażej in Polish — same name
- Blasius in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Pennsylvania, California.
Blaises among us
people named Blaise are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 8,019 born in 2025 was named Blaise
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Blaise
- #1038
- Blaise on the 2025 chart
- #638
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Blaise went to 213 boys in 2025, but Blaize and Blayze are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 306, which makes it the 638th most-given boys’ name of the year — 400 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 5,582 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 8,019 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 Lazaro 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: Lazaro climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lazaro'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.
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.
Blaise beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blaise in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable with a clear ending, which sits easily against longer or multi-syllable surnames.
- Recognized across Catholic Europe in local forms — Biagio, Blas, Balázs — so relatives abroad will usually place it.
- A documented line running from late antiquity through medieval romance to Blaise Pascal, without a gap.
- Short enough that it needs no nickname, and holds up unshortened from the playground to a signature.
- It is a homophone of the English word blaze, so expect the spellings Blaze and Blaize to come back at you on forms and rosters. Saying "Blaise with an i-s-e" will become routine.
- In US records it sits firmly on the boys' side, and it has stayed there — the French form has not developed the girls' usage that some saints' names have.
- Rare enough that a child will likely be the only one in a school, which means introductions are easy to remember but the name will rarely be guessed correctly on first hearing.
- The saint connection is strongest in Catholic families; elsewhere the name mostly reads as French and literary, which is a fine place for it to land.
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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 8,200 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 — 213 of the 306 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Blaize and Blayze.
- How popular is the name Blaise in 2025?
- Blaise ranks #1038 among US boy names in 2025, with 213 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blaise?
- About 1 in every 8,019 US boys born in 2025 was named Blaise — 213 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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