Blakely

What Blakely means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Blakely?

US: Rising: up from #357 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 1,892 girls got the name (#158 that year). First in the US records in 1969.

How common

• About 1 in 981 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,513 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls 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 WY (6.17 per 1,000 girls), MT (4.6 per 1,000 girls), ND (4.07 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Blakely is #191 in the US and #1407 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.5% of US babies named Blakely were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Blakelee88 US
• Blakeley69 US
• Blakelei7 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 Blakely

Girls

• Sutton#181“south + town”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Carter#454“son of Arthur”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Collins#241“descendant of Coileán”^*

For a brother

• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Oakley#454“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Ford#474Editor’s note Up from #741 in 2015 to #474 in 2025 in the US
• Jensen#282Editor’s note Up from #395 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 in the US

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 Blakely’s. Rank is US 2025.