Blair Boy Name

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The name Blair is of English origin, and means flat piece of property. The table below indicates the number of times the name Blair has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Blair**
Use of the Name Blair for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
12,674	8,681	3,484	136	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Blair has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Blair first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. Blair last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 2000, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Blair**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	882	5
1882
1883	908	5
1884	988	5
1885	953	5
1886
1887	944	5
1888	618	11
1889	806	7
1890
1891	606	10
1892	804	8
1893	712	9
1894	970	6
1895	886	7
1896	676	11
1897
1898
1899
1900	849	10
1901	964	6
1902	753	10
1903
1904	978	7
1905
1906	677	13
1907
1908	659	16
1909
1910
1911	864	15
1912	881	26
1913	877	31
1914	802	43
1915	707	69
1916	744	67
1917	714	73
1918	714	79
1919	701	80
1920	722	81
1921	745	79
1922	756	77
1923	785	71
1924	770	76
1925	674	90
1926	680	87
1927	769	73
1928	759	72
1929	718	75
1930	705	78
1931	727	71
1932	840	58
1933	668	77
1934	755	66
1935	779	63
1936	871	49
1937	909	47
1938	737	69
1939	860	51
1940	928	47
1941	858	54
1942	692	86
1943	590	115
1944	734	71
1945	661	83
1946	728	80
1947	702	98
1948	633	115
1949	704	94
1950	563	143
1951	481	198
1952	468	219
1953	434	266
1954	435	275
1955	482	230
1956	499	230
1957	508	231
1958	519	218
1959	513	234
1960	499	251
1961	515	237
1962	458	305
1963	439	330
1964	514	230
1965	542	199
1966	515	215
1967	524	203
1968	517	214
1969	579	181
1970	601	182
1971	673	151
1972	703	131
1973	726	122
1974	682	143
1975	670	151
1976	640	165
1977	605	192
1978	577	211
1979	550	241
1980	554	238	900	167
1981	501	280	524	371
1982	566	227	446	482
1983	545	237	480	411
1984	573	218	434	482
1985	651	180	429	513
1986	643	194	434	493
1987	727	156	486	443
1988	658	204	424	545
1989	637	245	484	486
1990	580	304	486	500
1991	621	267	530	441
1992	650	252	522	456
1993	769	185	627	360
1994	842	161	648	332
1995	949	136	641	338
1996			665	334
1997			707	304
1998			831	256
1999			885	240
2000			971	218
Totals:		12,674		8,172

During the last 125 years, parents have used Blair as a boy's name about 60% of the time and as a girl's name about 39% of the time. This name has been considered suitable for either boys or girls. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Blair appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 104 times during the last 125 years.

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