Blain Family History
Blain Name Meaning
Scottish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name
Bláán, a diminutive of blá ‘yellow’. This was
the name of an early Celtic saint.Scottish: shortened form of
MacBlain.Scottish and northern English: nickname for
a person suffering from boils, from Middle English blain
‘blister’, ‘pustule’.Variant of Blin, a reduced
form of French Belin. Possibly also a reduced form of
Abelin, a pet form of Abel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Blain Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Blain families
 36 - 69  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Blain families
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91 - 180 31 - 90 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Blain families
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60 - 117 21 - 59 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Blain Family Origin
Blain Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Blain
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Blain Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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