Blessing

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Blessing: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #266 in 2001, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#266highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#1365
1998	#1571
1999	#1805
2000	#1688
2001	#1439
2002	#1151
2003	#933
2004	#687
2005	#718
2006	#639
2007	#742
2008	#557
2009	#556
2010	#773
2011	#804
2012	#887
2013	#959
2014	#940
2015	#860
2016	#837
2017	#1457
2018	#1136
2019	#854
2020	#1200
2021	#1402
2022	#1326
2023	#1410
2024	#1007

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1007 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #1365 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2025
Highest recorded position: #266 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 2000–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Blessing appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 941 births with the name.

Blessing across 4 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.

Blessing'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 · Girls	#1365 (1997)	#556 (2009)	#1007 (2024)	28 of 28	941 (1997–2024)	69 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#536 (2000)	#266 (2001)	#885 (2025)	18 of 26	109 (2000–2025)	12 (2001)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#1084 (2006)	#2671 (2024)	24 of 24	222 (2001–2024)	20 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#500 (2003)	#698 (2008)	2 of 6	6 (2003–2008)	3 (2003)

Blessing by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Blessing in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	3 of 10	11
2000s	383	10 of 10	38
2010sbusiest	395	10 of 10	40
2020s	130	5 of 10	26

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 40 births a year.

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

Blessing 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 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #266 in Republic of Ireland in 2001.

Blessing'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	#1007	35	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1410	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1402	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1200	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#854	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1136	30	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1457	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#837	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#860	43	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#940	39	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#959	38	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#887	42	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#804	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#773	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#556	69	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#557	68	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1294	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#742	45	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#639	50	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1084	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#718	42	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#687	42	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#933	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1151	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1439	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1571	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#373	11	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#367	10	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	9	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	6	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#333	9	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#331	9	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	12	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #266, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

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 2000, and 3 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Kia · #266, 28y
Danuta · #267, 29y
Gintare · #265, 24y
Duane · #268, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Angharad · #266, 28y
Ella-Mae · #266, 30y
Kia · #266, 28y
Kori · #266, 29y

Blessing was ranked #266 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2001. 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.

Blessing 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 Blessing without appearing here.

Blessing moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3451 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4991.
Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1688 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1439 and #3262.

Moved ahead of Blessing

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2104.
Gunnar Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2459 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #3373.
Braxton Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1251 and #1398 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1756 and #569.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #854 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1200 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Blessing

Alice Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 while Alice went from #74 to #41.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 while Amelia went from #269 to #12.
Annie Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 while Annie went from #165 to #33.
Ava Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 while Ava went from #44 to #26.

Moved the same way as Blessing

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 and Abigail from #82 to #115.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 and Aimee from #106 to #885.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 and Aisling from #25 to #180.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Blessing went from #536 to #885 and Alex from #151 to #304.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #266 in Republic of Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Blessing

Blessing at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Blessing across 4 official records

Blessing by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Blessing 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

Names published alongside Blessing

Blessing and the names beside it

Blessing moved ahead of

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Blessing at a glance

Blessing across 4 official records

Blessing by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Blessing appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Blessing

Blessing and the names beside it

Blessing moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Blessing

Moved the opposite way to Blessing

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