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blunt Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for someone with fair hair or a light complexion, from Anglo-Norman French blunt ‘blond’ (Old French blund, blond, of Germanic origin).
  2. nickname for a stupid person, from Middle English blunt, blont ‘dull’, ‘stupid’ (probably from Old English blinnan ‘to stop’, or Old Norse blundr ‘sleep’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blunt Families in the US in 1920
Number of blunt families
 83-164
 28-82		 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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any English Blunts! Blunt 9
Trying to contact Ann Blunt peka199 3
Zerviah Abbot married to Ephraim Blunt/Blount emd1174 1
Help--Henry W. Blunt Family spiritedangel2000 0
Missing Person Barbara Blunt 8
Blunt Family from NY to OK to CA Willow Miranda 20
Blunt Family rdiebel_1 0
Blunts from Cambridgeshire, England Larry_Horsfield 1
S. J. Blunt arrested for horse stealing. maryachtrh 0
family research jenny and tony blunt 7
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