Bliss is a distinctive choice, ranked #2254 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Bliss in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#2254
About the Name Bliss
Bliss is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 195 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #1112 in 1996 — and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Bliss is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Bliss
Unlikely. With around 12 UK babies named Bliss per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Bliss in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Bliss is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 195 places over the last five years to #2254 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Bliss is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Bliss does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Blisss in the wild.
12
UK babies named Bliss (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 195 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Bliss
Likely around 1 other Bliss in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Bliss
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
David Gregory Bliss is an American basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Oklahoma, Southern Methodist, New Mexico, and Baylor of the NCAA Division I, as well as Southwestern Christian of the NAIA.
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Bliss Dandridge was the youngest of the three surviving daughters of President Zachary Taylor and Margaret Smith. In 1848, after her father was elected president, Mary Elizabeth married William Wallace Smith Bliss, an army officer who had served with her father.
William Dwight Porter Bliss was an American Episcopal priest and one of the most famous and influential Christian socialists at the turn of 20th century. As a devout churchman, organizer, public speaker and an editor of numerous publications for over 40 years, Bliss became a central figure for the entire Christian socialist movement.
John William Michael Bliss was a Canadian historian and author. Though his early works focused on business and political history, he also wrote biographies of physicians Frederick Banting, William Osler and Harvey Cushing.
Doctor Willard Bliss was an American physician and pseudo-expert in ballistic trauma, who treated President of the United States James A. Garfield after his shooting in July 1881 until his death two and a half months later.
Edward Ernest Victor Bliss, 4th Baron Bliss, commonly known as Baron Bliss, was a British-born traveller who willed nearly two million British Honduras dollars to a trust fund for the benefit of the citizens of what was then the colony of British Honduras, now Belize.