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The blakely Surname

blakely Name Meaning and History

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) + leah ‘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’ + hlaw ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The blakely name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the blakely family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of blakely Families in the US in 1920
Number of blakely families
 53-103
 18-52		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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