Blaze

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Blaze: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Blaze: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #1,505 in 1999, and it stood at #2,671 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1505highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2411
1998	#3848
1999	#2189
2001	#2783
2002	#4137
2007	#4294
2008	#4524
2011	#4049
2014	#5691
2021	#3961

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1505 among boys in England and Wales, in 1999 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2671 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Blaze appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 244 births with the name.

Blaze across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Blaze's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1505 (1999)	#2671 (2024)	29 of 29	244 (1996–2024)	15 (2011)
England and Wales · Girls	#2411 (1997)	#2189 (1999)	#3961 (2021)	10 of 25	45 (1997–2021)	7 (1999)

Blaze by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Blaze in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	20	4 of 10	5
2000s	75	10 of 10	8
2010sbusiest	100	10 of 10	10
2020s	49	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Blaze appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1505 in England and Wales in 1999.

Blaze's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1704	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2020	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1539	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,505, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Blayke · #638, 14y
Blayne · #404, 23y
Blazej · #500, 12y
Bleddyn · #1345, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kainaat · #1505, 28y
Arash · #1506, 26y
Edwyn · #1506, 25y
Talal · #1506, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Django · #1505, 22y
Kainaat · #1505, 28y
Arash · #1506, 26y
Edwyn · #1506, 25y

Blaze and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Blaze without appearing here.

Blaze moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2052 and #4812.
Graeme Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2052 and #4812.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2007 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Herman Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4632 and #3895 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2445 and #4749.

Moved ahead of Blaze

Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2783 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #938.
Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2783 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #4294 and #1573.
Aksel Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1539 and #2403 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #4632 and #2079.
Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2411 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #1392.

Moved the opposite way to Blaze

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blaze went from #1505 to #2671 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blaze went from #1505 to #2671 while Harper went from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blaze went from #1505 to #2671 while Kasper went from #2425 to #529.
Rune Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blaze went from #1505 to #2671 while Rune went from #2943 to #1460.

Moved the same way as Blaze

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Blaze went from #2411 to #3961 and Abigail from #24 to #105.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Blaze went from #2411 to #3961 and Aimee from #61 to #1195.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Blaze went from #2411 to #3961 and Aisling from #496 to #1569.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Blaze went from #2411 to #3961 and Alex from #179 to #1866.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1505 in England and Wales in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Blaze

Blaze at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Blaze across 2 official records

Blaze by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Blaze appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Blaze and the names beside it

Blaze moved ahead of

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Blaze at a glance

Blaze across 2 official records

Blaze by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Blaze appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Blaze and the names beside it

Blaze moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Blaze

Moved the opposite way to Blaze

Moved the same way as Blaze