Blue
Masculine · “the color blue”
Blue is given to both — 950 boys and 503 girls since 1880. See Blue as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Blue came into English from French, and the older English word was hæwen — the borrowed one replaced it entirely.
How old is the name Blue?
Blue first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Blue alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 900 people named Blue are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blue most popular?
Blue peaked in 1969, reaching #2415 nationally. Today it ranks #2641, 226 places below that high. See the whole 1969 chart.
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Where it comes from
From bleu to Blue
The story of Blue
Ancient Greek has no word for blue as English uses it — Homer's sea is wine-dark — and linguists have found that blue is the last basic color term languages acquire, after black, white, red, green and yellow. English borrowed its word from French. Blue entered American given-name use recently and is in current use.
Meaning
the color blue
From the Old French bleu, from a Frankish root, which displaced the Old English hæwen and blaw. Blue is famously the last basic color term to appear in most languages, and Homer never uses one. The etymology is documented.
How the name formed
- bleu
- blue
- Blue
Related forms: Bleu · Blu
Pronouncing Blue
BLOO
One syllable. It is a homophone of the ordinary English adjective and of 'blew'.
Nicknames for Blue
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
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 202451 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2415reached in 1969
- Change vs 2024
- −3.9%49 in 2025, from 51
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.
Blue in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Bleu in French — related form
- Blu in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Blues among us
people named Blue are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 34,859 born in 2025 was named Blue
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 Alanson test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Blue's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alanson climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alanson's path sketches the road Blue is walking now.
Blue 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 Blue is headed
Blue 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.
Blue beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blue in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That blue is the last color term languages acquire is a first-rate fact.
- That Homer's sea is wine-dark is a genuinely good detail.
- One syllable, clean, and never mispronounced.
- It is an ordinary English adjective with a strong emotional sense.
- It is used for both sexes.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Masculine · #2641 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Blues 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 Blue are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Blue in 2025?
- Blue ranks #2641 among US boy names in 2025, with 49 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blue?
- About 1 in every 34,859 US boys born in 2025 was named Blue — 49 in all.
- Will my child share the name Blue with classmates?
- Blue will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Blue
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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