Blythe is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Blythe is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,479 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,478 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Blythe.
While Blythe is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1974, the name Blythe reached its highest popularity with #1,020 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Blythe. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Blythe.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Blythe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 101 babies were born with the name Blythe. This puts the name in rank 1,754 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,560,336 newborns was named Blythe that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Blythe has been and remains marvelously unusual!
You may not know anyone named Blythe, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to women and girls named Blythe. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Blythe living in one state or another. If your name is Blythe and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Texas, which has the most people named Blythe relative to the population, you still have to ask 28,586 women and girls their names before you hear Blythe as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Blythe is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Blythe 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Blythe, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Lion
Yoyo
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
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T
H
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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
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T
H
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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. Blythe sounds like this:
