Blair

maleStatistical record

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

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

Blair: Recorded since 1968, it reached #41 in 1979, and it stood at #325 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
95times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#41highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Blair's record

Held a top-100 place for 27 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1999	#3900
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2012	#3681
2013	#4739
2015	#2195
2016	#2367
2017	#1628
2018	#1343
2019	#1497
2020	#1238
2021	#767
2022	#1023
2023	#706
2024	#603

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #176 among girls in Scotland, #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #372 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #603 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1968–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #88 among boys in New Zealand in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Boys
Highest recorded1968–1996
Highest recorded position: #41 among boys in New Zealand, in 1979 (recorded 1968–1996).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #325 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Blair appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New Zealand · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1968, and has registered 2,863 births with the name.

Blair across 6 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.

Blair'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	#976 (1996)	#678 (1997)	#1758 (2024)	28 of 29	235 (1996–2024)	24 (1997)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#603 (2024)	#603 (2024)	16 of 29	335 (1996–2024)	65 (2024)
New Zealand · Boys	#88 (1968)	#41 (1979)	#92 (1996)	28 of 29	2,863 (1968–1996)	162 (1971)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#264 (2004)	#264 (2004)	#395 (2023)	8 of 20	25 (2004–2023)	4 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#325 (2025)	#325 (2025)	9 of 10	55 (2016–2025)	12 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#424 (2019)	#298 (2021)	#337 (2024)	4 of 6	16 (2019–2024)	5 (2021)

Blair 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 Blair in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	4 of 10	14
2000s	48	9 of 10	5
2010s	83	10 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	48	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

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

Blair appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1968 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #41 in New Zealand in 1979.

Blair'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	female	#603	65	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#706	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1023	33	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#767	48	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1238	26	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1628	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2020	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1330	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#678	24	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#976	14	High	Verified
1996	New Zealand	male	#92	57	High	Verified
1994	New Zealand	male	#87	64	High	Verified
1993	New Zealand	male	#90	62	High	Verified
1992	New Zealand	male	#84	73	High	Verified
1991	New Zealand	male	#82	69	High	Verified
1990	New Zealand	male	#79	74	High	Verified
1989	New Zealand	male	#63	87	High	Verified
1988	New Zealand	male	#51	110	High	Verified
1987	New Zealand	male	#74	68	High	Verified
1986	New Zealand	male	#55	91	High	Verified
1985	New Zealand	male	#47	109	High	Verified
1984	New Zealand	male	#57	86	High	Verified
1983	New Zealand	male	#46	124	High	Verified
1982	New Zealand	male	#44	133	High	Verified
1981	New Zealand	male	#52	113	High	Verified
1980	New Zealand	male	#55	101	High	Verified
1979	New Zealand	male	#41	147	High	Verified
1978	New Zealand	male	#55	105	High	Verified
1977	New Zealand	male	#68	87	High	Verified
1976	New Zealand	male	#52	124	High	Verified
1975	New Zealand	male	#50	137	High	Verified
1974	New Zealand	male	#51	136	High	Verified
1973	New Zealand	male	#56	131	High	Verified
1972	New Zealand	male	#57	120	High	Verified
1971	New Zealand	male	#46	162	High	Verified
1970	New Zealand	male	#56	123	High	Verified
1969	New Zealand	male	#83	95	High	Verified
1968	New Zealand	male	#88	75	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#421	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#264	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	12	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	10	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#176	23	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#59	83	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1968 and 2025, ranked in 57 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #41, first reached in 1979.

It held a top-100 place in 29 years, 27 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 162 births, registered in New Zealand in 1971.

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.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 56 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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Blaise · #459, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, 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.

Kellie · #40, 54y
Simone · #40, 62y
Sabrina · #39, 55y
Clare · #45, 62y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Danny · #41, 58y
Rowan · #41, 55y
Daire · #40, 60y
Kellie · #40, 54y

Blair was ranked #41 in New Zealand · Boys in 1979. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Blair 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 Blair without appearing here.

Blair moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1343 and #5666.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3681 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1343 and #5666.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4739 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2195 and #5730.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2367 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Blair

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #3225 and #848.
Cooper Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1330 and #1425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #3225 and #907.
Mathias Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #3134 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #3225 and #1322.
Marius Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1920 and #2055 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3362 and #1486.

Moved the opposite way to Blair

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blair went from #2683 to #603 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blair went from #2683 to #603 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blair went from #2683 to #603 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blair went from #976 to #1758 while Albie went from #853 to #19.

Moved the same way as Blair

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blair went from #976 to #1758 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blair went from #2683 to #603 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blair went from #976 to #1758 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blair went from #976 to #1758 and Alan from #163 to #592.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1968 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #41 in New Zealand in 1979. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Blair

Blair at a glance

What stands out in Blair's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Blair across 6 official records

Blair by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Blair appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Blair

Blair and the names beside it

Blair moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Blair

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Blair at a glance

What stands out in Blair's record

Blair across 6 official records

Blair by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Blair appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Blair

Blair and the names beside it

Blair moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Blair

Moved the opposite way to Blair

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