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blind Name Meaning and History

  1. English: descriptive epithet for a blind man, from Old English blind ‘blind’.
  2. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1, from Middle High German blint, German or Yiddish blind ‘blind’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blind Families in the US in 1920
Number of blind families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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BLIND Family from Dortmund, Ruhr Valley, Germany ugreene_1 1
Blind from Wuerttemberg Markogen 0
BLIND Roberta Ann 1937 1993 Loving wife and mother t42Hilltop_DalCoTX 0
John Leonard Blind Sr. katrinam1 0
john leonard blind peter mclaughlin 2
Blind family in Pittsburgh Lisa Fisher 4
Blind, Mary or May llgray50 0
John Blind Brooks Carlsen 2
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