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.
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