Blake
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Blake
Blake -- an early unisex option -- dropped out of the Top 100 in 2017 for the first time since 1988, but remains a sophisticated choice. And yes, both conflicting meanings of Blake are accurate. It originated as a surname in England derived from a nickname. Much of its masculine image was influenced by the wealthy, silver-haired character Blake Carrington in the massively popular 80s TV series Dynasty. Rosie O'Donnell has a son named Blake.
Blake for girls#295 US
The unisex Blake, which indeed has two conflicting meanings, has a briskly efficient image when used for a girl.
Though in the eighties it was seen very much as a boys’ name, epitomized by the character of Blake Carrington, the silver-haired, powerful patriarch of the TV soap Dynasty, these days it's more apt to be associated with Blake Lively, the attractive lead of the Gossip Girl series and the film Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Pronounced BLAKE.
As of October 2026, Blake ranked #316 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #71 in 2012, Nameberry popularity #245.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #84 | 4,948 | #591 | 501 |
| 2015 | #96 | 4,233 | #424 | 752 |
| 2016 | #127 | 3,289 | #298 | 1,098 |
| 2017 | #149 | 2,626 | #269 | 1,185 |
| 2018 | #158 | 2,465 | #280 | 1,185 |
| 2019 | #183 | 2,141 | #224 | 1,388 |
| 2020 | #209 | 1,813 | #222 | 1,319 |
| 2021 | #205 | 1,848 | #200 | 1,502 |
| 2022 | #228 | 1,579 | #200 | 1,448 |
| 2023 | #255 | 1,372 | #221 | 1,351 |
| 2024 | #265 | 1,311 | #210 | 1,457 |
| 2025 | #316 | 1,080 | #295 | 1,035 |
World rankings
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Famous Blakes
- Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump)Boy
American film director/producer
- Blake Austin GriffinBoy
American basketball player
- Blake Ellender LivelyBoy
American actress
- Blake Tollison SheltonBoy
American country music singer
- Blake Colin LewisBoy
American pop singer
- Blake Adam RitsonBoy
English actor
- Blake McGrathBoy
Canadian dancer/choreographer and singer
- Blake MichaelBoy
American actor
- (Randolph) Blake FarentholdBoy
U.S. Congressman from Texas
- Blake Alexander JennerBoy
American actor and singer
- Blake SennettBoy
American musician of band Rilo Kiley and former child actor
- (Philip) Blake MorrisonBoy
British memoirist and poet
- Blake Raymond AndersonBoy
American actor/comedian
- Blake ClarkBoy
American actor/comedian
- Blake Harrison (Keenan)Boy
English actor
- Blake James WheelerBoy
American ice hockey player
- Blake David AnnenBoy
American NFL football player
- Blake MillsBoy
American musician
- Blake SmithBoy
American fashion designer of TV's "Under the Gunn"
- Blake RichardsonBoy
singer and guitarist in British band New Hope Club
- Blake PieroniBoy
American swimmer
- William BlakeBoy
English poet
- Blake ParnellBoy
son of singer Lee Roy Parnell
- Blake PyattBoy
son of singer Iris Williams and Clive Pyatt
- Blake DennisBoy
son of rapper Willie D
- Blake WattBoy
son of singers Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt of Everything But the Girl
- Blake NollBoy
son of singer Shannon Noll
- Blake Nickolas Masche (b. 2007)Boy
sextuplet on reality TV's "Raising Sextuplets"
- Blake Ray Stone (b. 2010)Boy
son of Megan McConnell and Nathan Stone of TV's "16 and Pregnant"
- Blake Benjamin Dellacqua (b. 2013)Boy
son of tennis player Casey Dellacqua
- Blake Richard Lynch (b. 2016)Boy
son of athletes Kim Clijsters and Brian Lynch
- Blake Amanda Perlman (b. 1984)Girl
daughter of actor Ron Perlman
- Blake LindsleyGirl
American Actress
- Blake Bacher (b. 2006)Girl
daughter of swimmer Nicole Haislett and Ricky Bacher
- Blake Harper Feeley (b. 2016)Girl
daughter of athletes Heather Mitts and A.J. Feeley
- Blake Elizabeth Heeney (b.2016)Girl
daughter of NFL linebacker Ben Heeney
- Blake LivelyGirl
American actress
- Blayke Louise BusbyGirl
daughter of Adam and Danielle Busby, parents of the U.S.' first all girl quintuplets
Blake in pop culture
- Blake CarringtonBoy
character on TV's "Dynasty"
- Blake Sofian GriplingBoy
character on TV's "As Told By Ginger"
- "One (Blake's Got a New Face)"Boy
a song by Vampire Weekend
- Robin John BlakeBoy
character in "The Dark Knight Rises"
- Octavia and Bellamy BlakeBoy
characters in "The 100"
- Blake BelladonnaGirl
character in web,series "RWBY"
- Daphne BlakeGirl
character on animated series "Scooby Doo"
- Blake GainesGirl
character in movie "San Andreas"
- Blake ChandlerGirl
character in movie "Irreconcilable Differences" played by Sharon Stone
- Blake CollinsGirl
child predator on "Shameless"