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Blythe

Blythe: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“happy, carefree”
Origin
Old English
Say it
BLYTH · 1 syllable
Used for
Girls (95% of all uses)

From Old English blīþe, meaning 'joyful' or 'gentle'. It has long been used as both a surname and given name in English.

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How popular is Blythe?

202434.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Blythe in 2024113

2024 rank#1,863 girls

Peak year2013

Total US babies since 18805,339

Blythe has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Blythe

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Audreynoble strength · Old English
  • Ashleyash tree clearing · Old English
  • Hadleyheather field · Old English
  • Blakelydark wood or clearing · Old English
  • KimberlyCyneburg's meadow · Old English
  • Presleypriest's meadow · Old English
  • Marleypleasant wood · Old English
  • Harlowrock hill · Old English

Blythe questions

What does the name Blythe mean?

Blythe means "happy, carefree". It comes from Old English. From Old English blīþe, meaning 'joyful' or 'gentle'. It has long been used as both a surname and given name in English.

Is Blythe a boy or girl name?

Blythe is mainly a girl's name in US records (95% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Blythe?

113 US babies were named Blythe in 2024. Its peak year was 2013.

How do you pronounce Blythe?

Blythe is usually pronounced BLYTH.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.