English (Cumbria and Lancashire): habitational name from a place in
the Lake District named Blaisdell, from the Old Norse byname
Blesi (from blesi ‘blaze’, ‘white spot’), or from the
same word used in the sense of a white spot on a hillside, + Old Norse
dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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