Blessing: Meaning of Baby Name Blessing

Blessing Popularity Snapshot

Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 4,155 baby girls have been named Blessing. The name peaked in 2019 with 291 US births that year (rank #909). In 2024, ranked #1112 nationally — 203 places below its 2019 peak.

Top States for Blessing

Based on 1910–2024 US SSA state-level records, the three states with the most Blessing births are: Texas (441), New York (277), Georgia (219).

Other English-Origin Names Like Blessing

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8-Letter Names Starting with B

Names with Blessing's exact length and starting letter: Babafemi, Bacstair, Baillidh, Baldemar, Baldhart.

Quick Facts About Blessing

5,642

English baby names in our dictionary

2,251

English female names

187

8-letter B-names in our dictionary

402

B-female names total

2019–2023

years of US SSA records (2 total)

564

total US births named Blessing (all years)

US Popularity History (2019–2023)

↘️ Falling: Blessing dropped 46 places in the US girls ranking over the last 4 years (#909 in 2019 → #955 in 2023).

Annual US births named Blessing by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2019 with 291 girls named Blessing (girl rank #909 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2023, ranked #955 for girls (273 US births). That's 46 places below its 2019 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Blessing Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Blessing the strongest states are Maine, Iowa, Maryland.

Strongest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Maine	#195	23
2	Iowa	#461	35
3	Maryland	#496	94
4	Minnesota	#646	32
5	Wisconsin	#689	21
6	Georgia	#701	104
7	Tennessee	#742	45
8	Indiana	#753	69
9	Louisiana	#777	17
10	Illinois	#794	104

Weakest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Florida	#1,284	36
2	Michigan	#950	31
3	North Carolina	#950	42
4	Texas	#938	123
5	New York	#925	70
6	Missouri	#913	34
7	Pennsylvania	#897	41
8	Virginia	#881	58
9	Arizona	#845	45
10	Ohio	#812	71

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Blessing in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Inga	Daughter Of A Hero	Female	Danish
Ingrid	Meadow	Female	English

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Compare Blessing to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Blessing against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

Blessing vs Olivia 210,124 births since 2014

Blessing vs Emma 202,477 births since 2014

Blessing vs Sophia 169,709 births since 2014

Blessing vs Isabella 158,431 births since 2014

Blessing vs Ava 157,356 births since 2014

Blessing vs Charlotte 151,872 births since 2014

Blessing vs Mia 149,779 births since 2014

Blessing vs Amelia 142,728 births since 2014

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