Entry № 1529 · Scottish origin

Blair Blair — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Field / battlefield (Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "field / battlefield (blair waldorf, gossip girl)".

Blair is from the Scottish Gaelic blàr — "field, plain, battlefield." A top-500 US baby name since 1980, currently rising rapidly.

Field / battlefield.

The name in its native script.

Blair
Transliteration
Blair
Pronunciation
/ blɛər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Blair stands.

Blair 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.

Blairs before her.

Real people
Selma Blair
American actress (surname).
born 1972
Linda Blair
American actress.
born 1959
Cherie Blair
British barrister, ex-First Lady.
born 1954
In fiction
Blair Waldorf
Gossip Girl.
2007

Names connected to Blair.

The number behind Blair.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Blair reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.