Blakeley
Feminine · “dark clearing”
Blakeley is given to both — 1,351 girls and 102 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Blakeley is the dark clearing — or the pale one — because the Old English words for black and pale fell together.
How old is the name Blakeley?
Blakeley first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Blakeley is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Blakeley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blakeley most popular?
Blakeley peaked in 2024, reaching #2033 nationally. Today it ranks #2542, 509 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From blæc leah to Blakeley
The story of Blakeley
The collapse of blæc and blac left a set of English surnames whose meaning cannot be decided — a Blake ancestor was either very dark or very fair, and nobody can say which. Blakeley is an English place name and surname. It entered American girls' naming in the 2010s and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
dark clearing; or pale clearing
From the Old English blæc, 'black', or blac, 'pale' — two words whose spellings collapsed in Middle English — plus leah, 'clearing'. The surname is genuinely ambiguous between them. Both elements are ordinary Old English.
How the name formed
- blæc leah
- Blakeley
Related forms: Blakely · Blakelee
Pronouncing Blakeley
BLAYK-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Blakeley
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 202496 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2033reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −28.1%69 in 2025, from 96
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.
Blakeley in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Blakely in English — spelling variant
- Blakelee in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Alabama, Florida.
Blakeleys among us
people named Blakeley are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was named Blakeley
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Blakeley
- #2542
- Blakeley on the 2025 chart
- #884
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Blakeley went to 69 girls in 2025, but Blakelei is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 76, which makes it the 884th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,658 places above the chart.
- Blakeley69
- Blakelei7
About 1 girl in 21,148 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,294 for Blakeley 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 Trenyce test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Blakeley's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trenyce climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trenyce's path sketches the road Blakeley is walking now.
Blakeley 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 Blakeley is headed
Blakeley looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Blakeley beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blakeley in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the meaning is undecidable between opposites is a first-rate fact.
- Blake and Lee are two short forms, both real names in their own right.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It reads as a surname to most English speakers.
- It will be respelled by other people constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Blakeleys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Blakeley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Blakeley?
- Blakeley is the most-used spelling in US records — 69 of the 76 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Blakelei.
- How popular is the name Blakeley in 2025?
- Blakeley ranks #2542 among US girl names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blakeley?
- About 1 in every 23,294 US girls born in 2025 was named Blakeley — 69 in all.
- Will my child share the name Blakeley with classmates?
- Blakeley will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Blakeley
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