Entry № 1539 · English origin

Blythe Blythe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Free-spirited and joyful"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "free-spirited and joyful".

Blythe means happy, carefree and gentle, from the Old English blithe, the root of blissful and lighthearted.

Sunny and serene, it is a name that carries an easy, glad spirit.

Free-spirited and joyful — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Blythe
Transliteration
Blythe
Pronunciation
/ blaɪð /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Blythe stands.

Blythe 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.

Blythes before her.

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Names connected to Blythe.

The number behind Blythe.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Blythe reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.