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bliss Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English blisse ‘joy’. Compare Blythe 1.
  2. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from the village of Blay in Calvados, France, recorded in 1077 in the form Bleis and of unknown origin. The village of Stoke Bliss in Worcestershire was named after a Norman family de Blez, recorded several times in the county from the 13th century.
  3. German: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle High German blide ‘happy’, ‘friendly’. Compare 1.
  4. Americanized spelling of French Blois.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bliss Families in the US in 1920
Number of bliss families
 220-437
 74-219
 1-73
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