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How popular is the name Blue?
Births per year, rank history and how many Blues are alive today.
Blue (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1538th in 2025 and given to 17 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2021, when 27 babies were given the name, the 1055th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2011, with 23 babies given the name that year. Blue is one spelling of a name also recorded as Bleu and Blu; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Blue you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Blues born in England and Wales are between 5 and 16, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Blue - on average, only one in every 234 such rooms contains a Blue.
How many babies are named Blue each year?
Includes all spellings: Blue, Bleu, Blu. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Blue spelling rank?
Where does the Bleu spelling rank?
Where does the Blu spelling rank?
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 Blue most popular?
Blue peaked in 2022, when 94 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Blue?
At least 1,300 people named Blue in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Blue?
Most living Blues are between 5 and 16; the most common age is about 4.
Is Blue becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.