Blair
Torn between Blair and another name? Compare them side by side →
Meaning
place name, "field, plain"
The story
Blair is a Scottish field, flat and open, and its American record is a rare thing: three separate television eras wearing one name. At midcentury it leaned male, about 2,500 to 2,700 a decade in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly boys. The 1980s belonged to a girls' school heiress on The Facts of Life, and the decade's count jumped to 6,600, the girls' era begun. The 2010s belonged to Gossip Girl's queen bee, and the climb resumed to 5,500. This decade stands at 8,000 already, past the full 2010s, and about 7,600 of them are girls, ninety-five percent. Decade buckets point, they do not convict, but three eras in a row is a pattern. In our records the all-time split runs about 23,300 girls to 15,000 boys. The field stays open; who walks across it keeps changing.
How popular is Blair around the world?
In the United States, 7,970 babies were named Blair between 2020 and 2025. In Scotland, 83 boys named Blair were registered in 2024, the 59th most common name among boys that year.
Blair is on the official records of the United States, Scotland, Canada, Ireland, South Australia, England and Wales and Brazil.
United States
1 in 2,700
In the United States, 7,970 babies were named Blair between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Blair peaked in the 2020s. In US birth records, Blair went mostly to boys before the 1980s and mostly to girls in every decade since. In US birth records Blair has stayed between 2,103 and 7,970 births in every decade since the 1950s: a name everyone knows and few children get.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Scotland
1 in 430
In Scotland, 83 boys named Blair were registered in 2024, the 59th most common name among boys that year.
In Scotland, 23 girls named Blair were registered in 2024, the 176th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Canada
1 in 2,800
In Canada, 114 girls named Blair were born in 2024, the 257th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Ireland
1 in 4,500
In Ireland, 12 girls named Blair were born in 2025, the 325th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
South Australia
1 in 6,1002017
In South Australia, 2 girls were registered as Blair in 2017.
In South Australia, 1 boy was registered as Blair in 2017.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
England and Wales
1 in 6,300
In England and Wales, 72 girls named Blair were born in 2025, the 551st most common name among girls that year.
In England and Wales, 21 boys named Blair were born in 2025, ranked 1,307th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Argentina
last on record 2019
Blair is not on the 2024 record for Argentina, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 101 people in Brazil were named Blair, ranked 41,030th, with a median age of 57.
Among people named Blair living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
New Zealand
last on record 2024
Blair is not on the 2025 record for New Zealand, where names under 10 in a year are excluded at source.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Puerto Rico and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Blair
Most people given the name Blair in the United States were born between 1980 and 2019. The Blair you meet today is most often in their 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
Keep exploring
Names like Blair · Nickname-proof names · Gender-neutral names · Names that switched sides · Familiar but never popular
The Blair deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Blair truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Blair fits with your family’s names and surname.
Does Blair fit YOUR family?
nametree reads your family’s names and finds the ones that belong. Free, private, no ads.
Add Blair to your family’s tree →