Bligh
Boy · BLY · English
Bligh is a boys' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Bligh mean?
English: surname of uncertain origin
Borne by Captain William Bligh, whose crew mutinied on HMS Bounty in 1789.
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- BLY
Is Bligh a girl's or a boy's name?
Bligh is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bligh in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,065among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 64% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Bligh, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,733rd. Its busiest year was 2019, with 19 boys.
2025 had the fewest boys named Bligh since it first appeared, in 2017.
Half of all the boys named Bligh in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Bligh in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,003 |
| 2023 | 8 | #2,691 |
| 2022 | 7 | #2,922 |
| 2021 | 13 | #1,876 |
| 2020 | 14 | #1,733 |
| 2019 | 19 | #1,412 |
| 2018 | 17 | #1,555 |
| 2017 | 15 | #1,738 |
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