Blair
Top 1000
About Blair
In the USA, Blair is gaining momentum, rising quickly for the last 10 years and likely to continue to climb. In England and Wales, where Blair has political connotations – calling to mind former prime minister Tony Blair – it is much less common, although it is in use for boys in its native Scotland.
Blair has a chic and tailored feel in line with other trending gender-neutral one-syllable girl names like Sloane, Quinn, Sage, and Reese. A notable pop culture namesake in recent years is Leighton Meester's upper-crusty character in Gossip Girls.
Blair was first popularized as a girl's name in the 80s, cracking the Top 500 for a few years before falling off again. Blair re-entered the charts in 2011 and has been rising since. Blair has a longer history as a boy's name, with consistent use as early as the 1800s, and the name stayed on the charts until the mid 90s.
Pronounced BLAIR.
As of October 2026, Blair ranked #169 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #266.
Editor's take: The name Blair is a girl's name of Scottish origin meaning "dweller on the plain".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #649 | 440 | 246.3 |
| 2015 | #605 | 484 | 271.1 |
| 2016 | #521 | 597 | 336.9 |
| 2017 | #511 | 614 | 355.6 |
| 2018 | #433 | 729 | 428.6 |
| 2019 | #402 | 771 | 459.4 |
| 2020 | #335 | 925 | 572.2 |
| 2021 | #316 | 1,025 | 624.7 |
| 2022 | #283 | 1,122 | 684.1 |
| 2023 | #242 | 1,264 | 787.7 |
| 2024 | #218 | 1,412 | 871.5 |
| 2025 | #169 | 1,806 | 1,123.6 |
World rankings
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Blair on lists
Famous Blairs
- Blair Butler
American comedienne
- Laura Elizabeth "Blair" Fowler
American YouTuber
- (Bonnie) Blair Brown
American actress
- Blair Catherine Evans
Australian Olympic swimmer
- Blair Chenoweth
Miss Alaska USA 2007
- Blair Imani (born Blair Elizabeth Brown)
American civil rights activist
- Blair St. Clair
stage name of Andrew Bryson, American drag queen
- Blair Cruikshank
daughter of speedskaters Bonnie Blair and Dave Cruikshank
- Blair Moon
daughter of NFL player Warren Moon
Blair in pop culture
- Blair Cornelia Waldorf
main character in the Gossip Girl series
- Blair Warner
a character on TV's "The Facts of Life"
- Blair Cramer
character on American soap "One Life to Live"
- Blair
princess in Barbie animated film "12 Dancing Princesses"
- Blair Williams
character in film "Terminator Salvation"
- Blair Krank
character in the film, "Christmas With the Kranks"
- Blair Willows
main character in animated film "Barbie Princess Charm School"
- Blair Wainwright
character in "The Sims 3" computer game
- Blair Dame
character in the video game Street Fighter EX
- Blair
magical cat on manga/anime "Soul Eater"
- Blair
character in animated series "Sunny Day"
- "The Blair Witch Project
" film series
- Blair Water
fictional town and lake in LM Montgomery's 'Emily of New Moon' trilogy
- Blair Warner
character in TV series "The Facts of Life"
- “The Blair Bitch Project”
episode in series “Gossip Girl”