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The first name 
Blair

Blair is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.

Blair known and loved in the US!

The name Blair is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #850 in the SmartGenius ranking.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Blair

What does the name 
Blair mean?

The name Blair comes from a Scottish surname that was derived from Gaelic ‘blàr’ meaning ‘plain, field, battlefield’.

While Blair is ... traditionally a boy's name, it has been given primarily to girls in the United States since about 1980.

Blair has 5 letters 
and begins with a B

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.

With five letters, the name Blair is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.

Other names with 
B, l, a, i and r

If you take all the letters in the name Blair – B, l, a, i and r – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Abril or Libra.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Blair

If your name is Blair and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Blair

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Blair, you can simply say:

Butterfly

Lion

Apple

Igloo

Rocket

This is how the name Blair is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Blair in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Blair

Blair

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Blair

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Blair is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

B
L
A
I
R

Have you ever waved the name Blair

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

B
L
A
I
R

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Blair sounds like this: