Given name & surname
Blaise
“one with a lisp or a stammer”
Blaise is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one with a lisp or a stammer.”
Original FrenchBlaisette
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one with a lisp or a stammer.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
In English usage, Blaise developed from Blasius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Blaise through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 9,656
- 8,768 boys · 888 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 307 babies
- 2025
- 256
- #1,038 for boys · #3,530 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −3%
- Steady
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 85% boys.
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 213 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,038 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 9.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 283 in 2015. It also appeared in 43 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (15). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,702 as a first name in 2020; 2,478 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Blaise’s family of names
In French usage, Blaise has a diminutive in BLAISETTE. Blaise shares a linguistic root with Blas. Blaise has a related form in Blaze.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Blaise has relatives in 39 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Frenchwhere Blaise comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 18
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 42
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Jasoequivalent
- Biagiocognate · Italian, Neapolitan
- BraisGalician
- Blažiejusequivalent
- BłażejaPolish
- Vrasicognate · Sicilian
- ΒλάσιοςGreek
- BłażejPolish
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- Blasicognate · Italian
- BlažejCzech form of · Czech
- Vlassisrelated form
- Brasrelated form
- Blȃžsvm
- БлезRussian, Bulgarian
- ВласийRussian, Bulgarian
- Vlassee also · Romanian
- BlajRomanian
- BrásPortuguese
- Balázscognate · Hungarian
- Vlasigriko
- BleiddWelsh
- BlažCroatian, Slovene
- VlahoCroatian
- Blaicognate · Catalan, Occitan
- BleizBreton
- Bläsigsw
- Bllêsfrp
- BlásiusFaroese
- BleazBreton
- ՎլասArmenian
- VlashiAlbanian
- BiasioVenetian
- ВласійUkrainian
- VlasijeSerbo-Croatian
- БлажSerbo-Croatian
- ВласијеSerbo-Croatian
- ВласијMacedonian
- Biaslmo
- Vlas(i)cognate
- Blazejcognate
- Brazcognate
- Biag(g)iocognate
People named Blaise
- Blaise PascalFrench mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
- Blaise CompaoréPresident of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014born 1951
- Blaise MatuidiFrench footballer (born 1987)
- Blaise CendrarsSwiss writer (1887-1961)
- Blaise NkufoSwiss footballerborn 1975
- Blaise de VigenèreFrench cryptographer (1523-1596)
- Blaise de Monlucmarshal of France1499–1577
- Blaise KouassiIvorian and French footballerborn 1974
- Blaise DiagneSenegalese politician (1872-1934)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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