Blaise

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Blaise is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name61K records spelled Blaise11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Blåîsé, Blaíse, Blaisé, Blaisè

• Spanish given name5.3K records spelled Blaise4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Brazil, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Blâísé

• Arabic given name492 records spelled Blaise3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Türkiye

  Also written Bláise

79 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Blaise is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, from OE blase, blæse, ME blase, blese, bleis ‘a torch, firebrand’; first attested Robert Blase 1272 FFY

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In French, From Latin Blasius, possibly from Greek blaisos 'lisping, bow-legged'.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, From Latin Blasius, probably from blaesus 'lisping'.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In English, Robert Blase 1272 FFY; Robert le Bleys 1297 MinAcctCo; William Blase 1403 TestEbor; John Blaze 1642 PrD. OE blase, blæse, ME blase, blese, bleis ‘a torch, firebrand’. cf. FLAMBARD. v. also BLOIS.

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In French, Du latin Blasius, « celui qui parle avec difficulté »; saint Blaise fêté le 3 février.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 108 years between 1913–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Blaise de Montlucb. 1499FRmarshal of France
• Blaise de Vigenèreb. 1523FRFrench cryptographer (1523-1596)
• Blaise Pascalb. 1623FRFrench mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
• Marie-Joseph Chénierb. 1764FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet, dramatist and politician (1764-1811)
• Blaise Diagneb. 1872FRSenegalese politician (1872-1934)
• Blaise Cendrarsb. 1887CHSwiss writer (1887-1961)
• Blaise Compaoréb. 1951BFPresident of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
• Blaise Kouassib. 1974CIIvorian and French footballer
• Blaise Nkufob. 1975CHSwiss footballer
• Blaise Matuidib. 1987FRFrench footballer (born 1987)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 529 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Blaise?

We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Blaise (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Blaise have the most bearers?

We estimate about 7.0 thousand people bear Blaise in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled blaise.

How common is Blaise compared with other names?

In Cameroon, Blaise is the 43rd most common given name of 9,502 given names recorded there.

Is Blaise a male or female name?

Blaise is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Blaise mean?

Recorded meaning: from the medieval male personal name Blaise, from Latin Blasius, related to a word meaning ‘stammering’ or ‘limping’.