Gender: Girl
Meaning: Dark meadow, dark clearing
Origin: English
Popularity: Ranked #158 in 2024 with 1,882 babies born.
History: Blakely surged in the 2010s-2020s as a surname-name with polished Southern energy. Sara Blakely founded Spanx and became a self-made billionaire — one of the great American entrepreneur stories. The name carries both Old English heritage ('dark meadow') and new American ambition. Blakely means making it on your own terms.
Name length: 7 letters
How common is Blakely? About 1 in 1,756 babies born in 2024 were named Blakely, or roughly 5.2 per day in the United States.
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