Blessing
Blessing is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 219 births. Its best rank was 909th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2190.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2019291 births
- Best rank
- #909in 2019
- Since 1975
- 4,639people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,155 girls have been named Blessing in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 291 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 43%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 484 boys have also been given it, 10% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Blessing was the 909th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Blessing
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Italypeak 2021
- Zaynabpeak 2016
- Havenpeak 2024
- Asiyapeak 2024
- Egyptpeak 2019
- Amiliapeak 2023
- Zahrapeak 2024
- Rahmapeak 2016
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.