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English : variant of Blake.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : habitational name from any of various places in northern England and the Scottish Borders called Blakeley, named with Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ (see Black) + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’. The Scottish surname may also have absorbed some cases of Blakelaw, from a place in the Borders named with Old English blæc ‘black’ + hlÄw ‘hill’.
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English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire named Blakesley, from an Old English personal name Blæcwulf + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, ‘glade’.
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English : variant of Blakeney.
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English : variant of Blakeslee.
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English : variant of Blakeney.
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English (northern Ireland) : variant of Blakely.
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English : variant of Black 1, meaning ‘swarthy’ or ‘dark-haired’, from a byform of the Old English adjective blæc, blac ‘black’, with change of vowel length.English : nickname from Old English blÄc ‘wan’, ‘pale’, ‘white’, ‘fair’. In Middle English the two words blac and blÄc, with opposite meanings, fell together as Middle English blake. In the absence of independent evidence as to whether the person referred to was dark or fair, it is now impossible to tell which sense was originally meant.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bláthmhaic ‘descendant of Bláthmhac’, a personal name from bláth ‘flower’, ‘blossom’, ‘fame’, ‘prosperity’ + mac ‘son’. In some instances, however, the Irish name is derived from Old English blæc ‘dark’, ‘swarthy’, as in 1 above. Many bearers are descended from Richard Caddell, nicknamed le blac, sheriff of Connacht in the early 14th century. The English name has been Gaelicized de Bláca.
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English (mainly West Yorkshire and Lancashire)
English (mainly West Yorkshire and Lancashire) : from any of several places so named in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Cumbria, and elsewhere (see Blakely).
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English : variant of Blakely.
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English : habitational name from places so named in Gloucestershire and Norfolk or from Blackney Farm in Stoke Abbott, Dorset. The first two are named with Old English blæc, dative blacan ‘black’, ‘dark’ + ēg ‘island’, ‘promontory’; the third is from Old English blæc + hæg ‘enclosure’.
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English (northern Ireland) : variant of Blakely.
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English : probably a habitational name from any of various places called Blakenhall, in particular one in Cheshire, named with Old English blæc ‘black’ (dative blacan) + halh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’.
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English (Northumberland) : variant of Blackie.
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English : variant of Blackmore.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Blackman.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name, probably from Blakeway Farm near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. The place name is derived from Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ + weg ‘road’, ‘path’, ‘way’.
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English (northern Ireland)
English (northern Ireland) : probably a variant of Blakeney.
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English : habitational name from any of various places so named with Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ + mÅr ‘moor’, ‘marsh’ or mere ‘lake’. MÅr is the second element of places called Blackmore in Essex, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire, as well as Blackmoor in Dorset; mere, on the other hand, is the second element of Blackmore in Hertfordshire and Blackmoor in Hampshire, the early forms of which are Blachemere, Blakemere.
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English : variant of Blacker.
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