Neutral
Blair
As a gender-neutral name, Blair is understood to mean "plain, field, battlefield". It settled in after its 1980s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
Scottish GaelicScottish Gaelic "blàr"
EtymologyMeaning "plain, field, battlefield"
Births by decade
1900s
81
1910s
508
1920s
796
1930s
647
1940s
929
1950s
2,496
1960s
2,734
1970s
2,105
1980s
6,585
1990s
5,320
2000s
2,498
2010s
3,867
Peaked in the 1980s · 28,566 total U.S. births since 1900