Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word for the color, which was borrowed through Norman French from a Frankish word and replaced the native Old English cognate blaw. Although Beyoncé and Jay-Z used it for their first daughter in 2012, it has not become common in the United States.
20062006: 20 births, rank #4,520
2007: 14 births, rank #5,901
2008: 18 births, rank #5,067
2009: 11 births, rank #7,236
2010: 15 births, rank #5,741
20112011: 11 births, rank #7,009
2012: 22 births, rank #4,390
2013: 20 births, rank #4,621
2014: 17 births, rank #5,252
2015: 32 births, rank #3,431
20162016: 23 births, rank #4,327
2017: 29 births, rank #3,678
2018: 31 births, rank #3,524
2019: 35 births, rank #3,259
2020: 42 births, rank #2,846
20212021: 46 births, rank #2,732
2022: 48 births, rank #2,717
2023: 42 births, rank #2,952
2024: 51 births, rank #2,595
20252025: 49 births, rank #2,641
In 2025, 49 babies were recorded with the name Blue, ranking #2,641 among boys.