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How popular is the name Blake?
Births per year, rank history and how many Blakes are alive today.
Blake (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 144th in 2025 with 367 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2014, when 1,106 babies were given the name, the 57th most popular that year. It has declined since 2014; the 2025 figure is roughly 33% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 16,000 babies have been named Blake in England and Wales since 1996.
The Blake you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Blakes born in England and Wales are between 8 and 18, and there are at least 17,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 5.5% chance that at least one of them will be called Blake.
How many babies are named Blake each year?
Where does Blake rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Blake most popular?
Blake peaked in 2014, when 1,106 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Blake?
At least 17,000 people named Blake born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Blake?
Most living Blakes are between 8 and 18; the most common age is about 13.
Is Blake becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2014 peak.