Fun Facts About the Name Blade
- More than 2 thousand babies named Blade: U.S. records list 2,136 babies given the name Blade from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Blade Mean?
Blade is an English word name, taken directly from the noun blade, which comes from Old English blæd, meaning "leaf" or "blade of a plant." The same Germanic root is behind Old Norse blað, Dutch blad, and German Blatt, all of which mean "leaf." In its earliest English use the word referred to a leaf, a blade of grass, or a flat leaf-like part, such as the flat portion of an oar. The familiar sense "cutting part of a sword, knife, or tool" developed later, most likely because a metal blade is flat and shaped somewhat like a leaf. The literal etymology is therefore "leaf"; the weapon sense is a later extension of the same word, not a separate origin.
Blade Name History & Origins
Blade has existed as an ordinary English word since the Old English period, when it meant a leaf or a flat, leaf-shaped part. Its meaning broadened over the centuries, and by the Middle English period it was also being used for the cutting part of a sword or knife, alongside the older plant sense. Blade is also recorded as an English surname, of the type formed from an everyday word or trade term, though the exact route by which any particular family acquired it is not always clear.
As a first name, Blade is uncommon and modern, and it fits the wider habit in English-speaking countries of using common nouns and surnames as given names. Its best-known appearance in popular culture is the Marvel Comics character Blade, a vampire hunter created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan, who appeared in The Tomb of Dracula in 1973 and was later played by Wesley Snipes in films beginning in 1998. That comic-book association is a famous literary use of the name, not evidence of its origin or of when it was first given to a child.
How Popular is the Name Blade?
Blade has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2002. Its best rank was #1,167 in 1996.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,454 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 2024 | #4,196 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2023 | #4,236 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2022 | #3,107 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2021 | #3,920 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2020 | #3,739 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2019 | #3,727 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2018 | #2,998 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2017 | #4,486 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2016 | #3,447 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2015 | #2,724 | 44 | 0.0023% |
| 2014 | #3,160 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 2013 | #2,670 | 44 | 0.0023% |
| 2012 | #2,296 | 56 | 0.0030% |
| 2011 | #2,350 | 54 | 0.0028% |
| 2010 | #2,827 | 42 | 0.0022% |
| 2009 | #2,322 | 56 | 0.0028% |
| 2008 | #2,547 | 49 | 0.0024% |
| 2007 | #2,239 | 59 | 0.0028% |
| 2006 | #2,128 | 61 | 0.0030% |
| 2005 | #1,804 | 72 | 0.0036% |
| 2004 | #1,956 | 62 | 0.0031% |
| 2003 | #1,466 | 89 | 0.0045% |
| 2002 | #1,223 | 112 | 0.0058% |
| 2001 | #1,283 | 103 | 0.0053% |
| 2000 | #1,342 | 95 | 0.0048% |
| 1999 | #1,249 | 99 | 0.0052% |
| 1998 | #1,349 | 88 | 0.0046% |
| 1997 | #1,414 | 77 | 0.0041% |
| 1996 | #1,167 | 100 | 0.0053% |
| 1995 | #1,233 | 89 | 0.0047% |
| 1994 | #1,193 | 93 | 0.0048% |
| 1993 | #1,342 | 72 | 0.0037% |
| 1992 | #1,731 | 49 | 0.0025% |
| 1991 | #2,235 | 32 | 0.0016% |
| 1990 | #3,181 | 19 | 0.0009% |
| 1989 | #2,701 | 23 | 0.0011% |
| 1988 | #4,183 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1987 | #4,274 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1986 | #3,283 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1985 | #3,422 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1984 | #4,597 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #5,072 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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