Blakely

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Blakely: Recorded every year since 2011, it reached #374 in 2021, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
14years from first to last
#374highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#5785
2017	#3583
2018	#3178
2019	#2170
2020	#1773
2021	#2073
2022	#1767
2023	#1410
2024	#980

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 every year from 2011 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #980 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2011–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2011
First recorded at #2390 among boys in England and Wales in 2011 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #980 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Blakely appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 14 years beginning in 2011, and has registered 134 births with the name.

Blakely 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.

Blakely'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	#2390 (2011)	#1108 (2024)	#1108 (2024)	14 of 14	134 (2011–2024)	26 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2016)	#980 (2024)	#980 (2024)	9 of 9	131 (2016–2024)	36 (2024)

Blakely 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 3 regions, from 2011 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #374 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Blakely'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	#980	36	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1410	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1767	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 2011 and 2024, ranked in 14 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #374, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 13 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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Blanca · #758, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Eimantas · #375, 12y
Aime · #370, 17y
Roksana · #370, 18y
Auryn · #379, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Avyaan · #374, 12y
Zohan · #362, 12y
Zara-Rose · #358, 11y
Delilah-Rose · #391, 13y

Blakely was ranked #374 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2021. 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.

Blakely 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 Blakely without appearing here.

Blakely moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1108 and #5119.
Finley Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2170 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1773 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Blakely

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1688 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2320 and #967.

Moved the opposite way to Blakely

Aaron Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 while Aaron went from #58 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 while Alan went from #199 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 while Alex went from #59 to #171.
Alexander Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 while Alexander went from #23 to #36.

Moved the same way as Blakely

Aksel Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 and Aksel from #2892 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 and Albie from #218 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 and Alfred from #158 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Blakely went from #2390 to #1108 and Archie from #24 to #10.

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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 3 regions, from 2011 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #374 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Blakely across 2 official records

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