Entry № 1530 · English origin

Blake Blake — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BLAYK /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pale / dark (Blake Lively + Blake Lawn TV; unisex)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "pale / dark (blake lively + blake lawn tv; unisex)".

Blake is from the Old English blǣc ("dark, black") or blāc ("pale, fair") — a Janus name with opposite meanings. Blake Lawn — actor.

Pale / dark.

The name in its native script.

Blake
Transliteration
Blake
Pronunciation
/ bleɪk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Blake stands.

Blake does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Blakes before her.

Real people
Blake Lively
American actress.
born 1987
Blake Edwards
American film director.
1922 – 2010
In fiction
Serena van der Woodsen
Played by Blake Lively.
2007

Names connected to Blake.

The number behind Blake.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Blake reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.