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The bly Surname

bly Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Bligh.
  2. German: variant of Blei, Bley, a metonymic occupational name for a lead miner or lead worker, from Middle High German bli ‘lead’.
  3. Dutch: nickname for a cheerful, happy man, Dutch blij.
  4. Swedish: possibly German in origin (see 2 above) or a soldier’s name.
  5. Americanized form of a Norwegian habitational name from a farmstead in Hardanger named Bleie, from a river name from Old Norse bleikr ‘gray’, ‘pale’ + vin ‘meadow’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bly Families in the US in 1920
Number of bly families
 46-90
 16-45		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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