Blaine

What Blaine means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Blaine yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #650 in 2015 to #991 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Blaine?

US: Falling: down from #650 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1186 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1884, when 62 boys got the name (#209 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 7,426 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 33,992 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,228 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (0.53 per 1,000 boys), TN (0.49 per 1,000 boys), LA (0.47 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Blaine is #991 in the US and #2664 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 92.0% of US babies named Blaine were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Blayne42 US
• Blane27 US
• Blin13 US · 11 E&W
• Blain10 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Blaine

Boys

• Blake#316“black”^*
• Ryan#99Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 29,905 babies; 3,532 in 2025
• Skyler#783Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #360 in 2015, #783 in 2025
• Brandon#261“broom shrub + hill, dune”^*
• Tyler#219“tiler”^*
• Devin#548“fortuneteller”^*

For a sister

• Paige#346possibly “servant”^*
• Leslie#712“garden of hollies”^*
• Brooke#313Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 6,724 babies; 972 in 2025
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Kimberly#302Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #108 in 2015, #302 in 2025
• Haley#861“hay field”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Blaine’s. Rank is US 2025.