Name

Name BLUE

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 1,095 births of Blue in the countries below, which represents an average of 8 births of children bearing the first name Blue per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 113 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Blue
In Italiano

Nome Blue

Information about the first name Blue

The first name Blue has been assigned to:

53.15% to boys
46.85% to girls

The country where the first name Blue is the most common is:

United Kingdom

This first name is on trend: Both (Unisex)

This first name has 4 letters including 2 vowels and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Blue

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Blue : Belu, Bleu, Buel, Bule, Elbu, Lube, Ubel, Ulbe

Blue in Japanese ^*

Romaji	buru
Katakana	ブル
Hiragana	ぶる
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Blue in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Blue

English

Etymology

German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate Bleu.

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from blew (past tense of blow).

Etymology (Verb)

blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)
(ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
Synonym: bluen
(transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
(transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
(intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.

Etymology (Verb)

blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)
(transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

Alternative forms

blew, blewe (obsolete)

Anagrams

Buel, lube

Anagrams

Buel, lube

Noun

Blue (plural Blues)
A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
(historical) A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)
Synonym of British Blue (“a breed of cat”)

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -uː

Pronunciation

enPR: blo͞o, IPA(key): /bluː/
(Wales) IPA(key): /blɪʊ̯/
(General American) IPA(key): /blu/
(obsolete) enPR: blyo͞o, IPA(key): /bljuː/
Rhymes: -uː
Homophone: blew

Proper noun

Blue
A surname from German. An anglicization of German Blau.
(rare) A female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.
A male nickname, occasionally used as a formal given name.

Esperanto

Adverb

blue
bluely

Adverb (Related terms)

blua (“blue”)
blui (“to be blue”)
bluo (“the color blue”)

Popularity of the name Blue

Number of BLUE births per year

Popularity of the name Blue

Total births of Blue by country

		Births with the first name Blue
Country		Boys Girls
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	390 124
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	123 66
	France 1900 - 2022	20 149
	Chili 2010 - 2021	0 61
	Italy 1999 - 2021	9 52
	Germany 2000 - 2022	11 19
	Belgium 1995 - 2022	5 13
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	11 5
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	0 13
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	6 5
	Denmark 1985 - 2022	3 3
	Sweden 1998 - 2022	2 2
	Australia 1930 - 2022	2 0
	Austria 1984 - 2021	0 1

Popularity of the name Blue

Total births of Blue by country (last available year)

		Births with the first name Blue
Country		Boys Girls
	United Kingdom 2021	27 12
	France 2022	0 37
	United State of America 2022	11 7
	Italy 2021	0 8
	Chili 2021	0 5
	Germany 2022	1 2
	Quebec 2022	2 0
	Switzerland 2021	0 1