Blayke
Feminine · “dark”
Blayke is given to both — 1,822 girls and 750 boys since 1880. See Blayke as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Blayke respells Blake, and the Old English words for black and pale fell together so completely that the surname could mean either one.
How old is the name Blayke?
Blayke first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Blayke is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,800 people named Blayke are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blayke most popular?
Blayke peaked in 2019, reaching #1203 nationally. Today it ranks #2076, 873 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From blæc to Blayke
The story of Blayke
The collapse of blæc and blac left a family of English surnames meaning either very dark or very fair, with no way to tell which. William Blake wrote and engraved his own books. Blake became an American given name for both sexes, and the Blayke respelling appears in the registers for girls in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
dark; or pale
From the Old English blæc, 'black', or blac, 'pale' — two distinct words whose spellings collapsed in Middle English, leaving the surname genuinely ambiguous. Both are ordinary Old English. The -ayke respelling is modern with no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- blæc
- Blake
- Blayke
Related forms: Blake · Blaike
Pronouncing Blayke
BLAYK
One syllable. Blayke and Blake are homophones; only the spelling differs.
Nicknames for Blayke
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 2017198 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1203reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- +3.4%90 in 2025, from 87
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.
Blayke in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Blake in English — spelling variant
- Blaike in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Michigan.
Blaykes among us
people named Blayke are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 17,859 born in 2025 was named Blayke
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 Maysel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Blayke's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maysel climbed just as high around 1908, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maysel's path sketches the road Blayke is walking now.
Blayke 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 Blayke is headed
Blayke is easing off slowly — about 26% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. 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.
Blayke beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blayke in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the name means either black or pale and nobody can say which is a first-rate fact.
- One syllable, clean, and never mispronounced.
- William Blake is a first-rate bearer of the standard spelling.
- Blake is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- The respelling will be corrected by other people constantly.
- It reads as more masculine than feminine.
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Frequently asked
- How many Blaykes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Blayke are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Blayke in 2025?
- Blayke ranks #2076 among US girl names in 2025, with 90 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blayke?
- About 1 in every 17,859 US girls born in 2025 was named Blayke — 90 in all.
- Will my child share the name Blayke with classmates?
- Blayke will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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