Blaine
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the Scottish Gaelic personal name Blddn, literally ‘little yellow one’; (ii) from a medieval nickname for someone with boils, from Middle English blain ‘pustule’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Blaine is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 454 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) from the Scottish Gaelic personal name Blddn, literally ‘little yellow one’; (ii) from a medieval nickname for someone with boils, from Middle English blain ‘pustule’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blaine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 24K | Blaine | 454 |
| CA Canada | — | 3 | Blaine | 177 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7 | Blaine | 129 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Blaine | 12 |
| CN China | — | — | Blaine | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | 44 | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 33 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Blaine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Irish Gaelic: thin
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James G. Blaineb. 1830USAmerican politician (1830–1893)
- Rebecca Harding Davisb. 1831USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist (1831–1910)
- John J. Blaineb. 1875USAmerican politician (1875-1934)
- Wolfe+585b. 1914USnot in their usual namePhiladelphia typesetter said to have had the longest name ever used (1914–1997)
- Vivian Blaineb. 1921USAmerican actress (1921–1995)
- Hal Blaineb. 1929USAmerican drummer (1929–2019)
- Blaine Luetkemeyerb. 1952USAmerican politician
- David Blaineb. 1973USAmerican illusionist and extreme performer
- Madison McLaughlinb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Blaine Kern IIIb. 1996USactor
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(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.5K | #5,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,503 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blaine mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the Scottish Gaelic personal name Blddn, literally ‘little yellow one’; (ii) from a medieval nickname for someone with boils, from Middle English blain ‘pustule’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Blaine have the most bearers?
- Blaine is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled blaine.
What do you want to know about Blaine?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blaineThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blaine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.