Blakely
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The story
Blakely is an English place-surname, traditionally read as dark meadow, and its first-name career is a study in the -ly ending's quiet power. For decades it idled in the hundreds, about 450 in the 1980s, 630 in the 1990s, 940 in the 2000s, a name without a direction. Then the same wave that carried Everly and Hadley found it: about 9,000 in the 2010s and 10,800 so far this decade, already past the full 2010s. The ending did the steering. Sounding like a surname but landing like a lullaby, Blakely now goes to roughly seventeen girls for every boy in our records, about 20,800 to 1,200, and Blake waits inside it as the crisp short form. The meadow may be dark, but the name's trajectory is anything but; it is one of the clearest cases we have of a suffix deciding a name's future.
How popular is Blakely around the world?
In the United States, 10,761 babies were named Blakely between 2020 and 2025.
Blakely is on the official records of the United States, Canada, Scotland and England and Wales.
United States
1 in 2,000
In the United States, 10,761 babies were named Blakely between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Blakely peaked in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Canada
1 in 3,800
In Canada, 95 girls named Blakely were born in 2024, the 322nd 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)
Scotland
1 in 6,500
In Scotland, 4 girls named Blakely were registered in 2024, the 638th most common name among girls that year.
In Scotland, 3 boys named Blakely were registered in 2024, the 727th most common name among boys that year.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
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
England and Wales
1 in 16,000
In England and Wales, 22 girls named Blakely were born in 2025, ranked 1,407th among girls that year.
In England and Wales, 15 boys named Blakely were born in 2025, ranked 1,705th 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
South Australia
last on record 2014
Blakely is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
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
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand 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 Blakely
Most people given the name Blakely in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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The Blakely deep dive
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