Blaze

What Blaze means

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

Editor’s note Down from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Blaze?

US: Falling: down from #707 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2020 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 336 boys got the name (#767 that year). First in the US records in 1921.

How common

• About 1 in 5,239 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,424 baby boys in England and Wales 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 GA (0.64 per 1,000 boys), AL (0.56 per 1,000 boys), MS (0.55 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Blaze is #781 in the US and #1798 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 92.4% of US babies named Blaze were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Blaise213 US · 11 E&W
• Blaize57 US · 5 E&W
• Blayze36 US
• Blas13 US
• Blass5 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 Blaze

Boys

• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Magnus#763“great”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Livia#819Editor’s note Down from #724 in 2015 to #819 in 2025 in the US
• Cordelia#980Editor’s note Down from #949 in 2015 to #980 in 2025 in the US
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Lilianna#890Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 6 babies
• Azaria#638Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1988, with 6 babies
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US

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